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UNIVERSITY PRESS of MISSISSIPPI
Books for Fall–Winter 2013–2014
The Origins of Comics, page 1
CONTENTS
25 Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture,
Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture
12 Agnès Varda: Interviews
16 Alan Ball: Conversations
The Amazing Jimmi Mayes: Sideman to the Stars
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23 Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial
Representation
16 Chester Brown: Conversations
21 The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
19 Conversations with Edna O’Brien
18 Conversations with Natasha Trethewey
18 Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
25 Creolization as Cultural Creativity
14 The Crime Films of Anthony Mann
15 Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender,
Fetishism, and Popular Culture
17Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in
Comic Art
6 Eudora Welty’s World: Words on Nature
9 Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education
of a Christian Racist, A Memoir
4 Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from
Parchman Prison
10 Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret
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George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube
10 Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up
15 Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban
Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
20 Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos:
Conceptions of the African American West
9 Hydrocarbon Hucksters: Lessons from Louisiana
on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
24 I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image
and Proverb
2 Inside the Whimsy Works: My Life with Walt Disney
Productions
3 Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon
in the Information Age
19Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study
11 Mama Rose’s Turn: The True Story of America’s
Most Notorious Stage Mother
20 Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived
Theology of John M. Perkins
26 New in Paperback
8 New Orleans con Sabor Latino: The History and Passion of Latino Cooking
8 New Orleans Memories: One Writer’s City
22 New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices
22 Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet
5 The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey
1 The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to
Winsor McCay
7 The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk
Art Revealed
12 Peter Weir: Interviews
17 Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity
in the Left Behind Series
5 Power, Greed, and Hubris: Judicial Bribery in
Mississippi
13 Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated
2 Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
21 Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in
Rural Alabama
23 The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers
Theorize Whiteness
14 Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime
6 A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and
Photographs
24 West African Drumming and Dance in North
American Universities: An Ethnomusicological
Perspective
4 William F. Winter and the New Mississippi:
A Biography
11 Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad
CALENDAR OF PUBLICATION DATES
AVAILABLE: Eudora Welty’s World: Words on Nature F I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom
in Image and Proverb SEPTEMBER: Alan Ball: Conversations F Conversations with Natasha
Trethewey F Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture F
Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir F Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up F Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived Theology of John
M. Perkins F The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness F Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime F Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad OCTOBER:
Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual
Culture F Creolization as Cultural Creativity F Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban
Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s F Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study
F New Orleans Memories: One Writer’s City F New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices
F Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet F Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency,
and Identity in the Left Behind Series F Quincy Jones: His Life in Music F William F. Winter
and the New Mississippi: A Biography NOVEMBER: F Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial
Representation F Chester Brown: Conversations F The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi F
Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age F Mama Rose’s Turn:
The True Story of America’s Most Notorious Stage Mother F New Orleans con Sabor Latino:
The History and Passion of Latino Cooking F The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey
F Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated DECEMBER: Agnès Varda: Interviews
F Conversations with Stanley Kunitz F Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic
Art F George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube F The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk
Art Revealed F Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama JANUARY: The
Amazing Jimmi Mayes: Sideman to the Stars F Conversations with Edna O’Brien F The Crime
Films of Anthony Mann F Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret F Power, Greed,
and Hubris: Judicial Bribery in Mississippi F A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and
Photographs FEBRUARY: Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison F HooDoo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West F Hydrocarbon Hucksters: Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice F Inside the
Whimsy Works: My Life with Walt Disney Productions F The Origins of Comics: From William
Hogarth to Winsor McCay F Peter Weir: Interviews F West African Drumming and Dance in
North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective
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From The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay
Front cover details (from top left, then clockwise)—The Assembly Room at Bath, Thomas Rowlandson; The Analysis
of Beauty, William Hogarth; Simplicissimus, Olaf Gulbransson; Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay; Pantomime, to be played as it Was, Is, and Will Be, at Home, Alfred Crowquill (Alfred Henry Forrester); Little Sammy
Sneeze, Winsor McCay; Leonardo und Blandine, ein Melodram nach Burger, Joseph Franz von Goez; Jack Sheppard,
George Cruikshank; (center)—Only a Comic Valentine: A Kinetoscopic Study of Human Nature, F. B. Opper.
Back cover detail from—Only a Comic Valentine: A Kinetoscopic Study of Human Nature, F. B. Opper.
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The Origins of Comics
COMICS F POPULAR CULTURE F ART HISTORY
From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay
Thierry Smolderen
Translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen
In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a
cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians
of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted “sequential art”
definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that
inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic
strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the
United States.
Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William
Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Doré, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes
how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images—satirical images in
particular—were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual
technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led
to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself
from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form
of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its
present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.
Thierry Smolderen, Angoulême, France, is a comics writer and scholar who teaches at the École
européenne supérieure de l’image. Bart Beaty, Calgary, Alberta, is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. Nick Nguyen, Brussels, Belgium, is an independent
historian and researcher. Together, Beaty and Nguyen have translated The System of Comics by Thierry
Groensteen and Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of the American Comic Book by Jean-Paul
Gabilliet, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
In English for the first
time, a foundational text
that places the beginning
of comics well before
Rodolphe Töpffer
FEBRUARY, 200 pages (approx.), 9 x 12 inches, 160 b&w and color illustrations, index
Printed casebinding $50.00T 978-1-61703-149-6
Ebook available
Credits (from left to right)—Little Sammy Sneeze, Winsor McCay; Only a Comic Valentine:
A Kinetoscopic Study of Human Nature, F. B. Opper
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BIOGRAPHY F MUSIC F AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
MEMOIR F POP CULTURE F ANIMATION
Quincy Jones
Inside the Whimsy Works
Clarence Bernard Henry
Jimmy Johnson
Edited by Greg Ehrbar and Didier Ghez
Foreword by Grey Johnson
His Life in Music
Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers,
bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history
and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is
perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson’s album, Thriller.
Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy
of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of
American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.
Jones’s career has spanned over
sixty years, generating a substantial
body of work with over five hundred
compositions and arrangements. The
author focuses on this material as well
as many of Jones’s accomplishments:
performing as a young trumpeter in the
bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy
Gillespie, becoming the first African
American to hold an executive position
in the competitive white-owned recording industry, breaking racial barriers
as a composer in the Hollywood film
and television industries, producing
the best-selling album of all time, and
receiving numerous Grammy Awards.
A biography of one of
The author also discusses many
of Jones’s compositions, arrangements,
the most influential
and recordings and his compositional
creators and talents
study in France with legendary teacher
Nadia Boulanger. In addition, details are
of the twentieth
provided about Jones’s distinct ability as
century
one of the most innovative composers
and arrangers who incorporates many
different styles of music, techniques, and creative ideas in his compositions, arrangements, and film scores. He collaborated with an array of
musicians and groups such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles
Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Clifford Brown,
Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, USA for Africa, and many others.
Clarence Bernard Henry shows how Jones has, throughout his career,
wholeheartedly embraced philosophies of globalization and cultural
diversity in his body of work, collaborations, humanitarian projects,
and musical creativity.
Clarence Bernard Henry, Newark, New Jersey, is an independent
scholar and author of Let’s Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots
of Brazilian Popular Music (University Press of Mississippi).
OCTOBER, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, appendix, bibliography,
index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-861-7
Ebook available
American Made Music Series
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/search/series/4
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University Press of M ississippi
My Life with Walt Disney Productions
In this never-before-published memoir from the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917–1976) takes you
from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort.
Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities,
beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and
Roy Disney.
This book, also the story of how
an empire-within-an-empire is born
and nurtured, traces Johnson’s innovations in merchandising, publishing, and
direct marketing, to the formation of
what is now Walt Disney Records. This
fascinating biography explains how the
records helped determine the course
of Disney Theme Parks, television, and
film through best-selling recordings by
icons such as Annette Funicello, Fess
Parker, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, and Leopold Stokowski and the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
The extraordinary
Through Jimmy Johnson’s remarkstory of the rise of the able journey, the film, TV, and recording
industries grow up together as changes
Disney executive most
in tastes and technologies shape the
world, while the legacy of Disney is deresponsible for the
veloped as well as carefully sustained for
success of Walt Disney the generations who cherish its stories,
characters, and music.
Records
Jimmy Johnson (1917–1976) devoted his entire career to the Disney
organization. Johnson joined Disney in 1938 as an assistant in the publicity department and worked his way up within the company. He was
general manager and later president of the Walt Disney Music Company
until his retirement in March of 1975. Greg Ehrbar, Winter Garden,
Florida, is a two-time Grammy-nominated and Addy-winning writer
who has spent over twenty-seven years with Disney. He is the coauthor
of Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records (University Press of
Mississippi) and a contributor to the Official Disney Parks Blog and
The Cartoon Music Book, Celebrating the Magic: 40 Years of Walt Disney
World, and numerous Disney journals, books, and sites. Didier Ghez,
Madrid, Spain, is the vice president of International New Media, Latin
America & Iberia. His articles about the parks, animation, and vintage
international Disneyana, as well as his many interviews with Disney
artists, have appeared in Animation Journal, Animation Magazine,
and StoryboarD. He is the coauthor of Disneyland Paris—From Sketch
to Reality, runs the Disney History Blog, the Disney Books Network
website, and serves as managing editor of the Walt’s People book series.
FEBRUARY, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 14 b&w photographs, introduction,
foreword, index
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-61703-930-0
Ebook available
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MEMOIR F MUSIC F AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
MUSIC F JAZZ F ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
The Amazing Jimmi Mayes
Knowing Jazz
Sideman to the Stars
Jimmi Mayes with V. C. Speek
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a
sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in
history. He began his career playing the blues in the juke joints of Mississippi, sharpened his trade under the mentorship of drum legends
Sam Lay and Fred Below in the steamy nightclubs of south Chicago,
and hit it big in New York City behind such music legends as Tommy
Hunt from the Flamingos, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown.
Mayes played his drums behind
blues giants Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy
Reed, Robert Junior Lockwood, Earl
Hooker, Junior Wells, Pinetop Perkins,
and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. He lived
for a while with Motown sensation
Martha Reeves and her family and
traveled with the Shirelles and the
Motown Review. Jimi Hendrix was
one of Mayes’s best friends, and they
traveled together with Joey Dee and the
Starliters in the mid-1960s.
Mayes lived through racial segregation, the civil rights movement of the
1960s, the integration of rock bands,
and the emergence of Motown. He
The unforgettable life personally experienced the sexual and
moral revolutions of the sixties, was
story of one amazing
robbed of his musical royalties, and
survived a musical drought. He’s been
musician touring and
a pimp and a drug pusher—and lived
playing with Jimi Hendrix,
to tell the tale when so many musicians
Jimmy Reed, Marvin Gaye, have not. This sideman to the stars witnessed music history from the best seat
and many more
in the house—behind the drum set.
Jimmi Mayes, Chicago, Illinois, learned his trade as a teenager in the
juke joints around Jackson, Mississippi. He went on to perform with
many well-known artists, including Little Walter Jacobs, Marvin Gaye,
and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. V. C. Speek, Minooka, Illinois,
is the author of “God Has Made Us a Kindgom”: James Strang and the
Midwest Mormons. Speek is a former newspaper reporter and currently
works as the editor of John Whitmer Books in Independence, Missouri.
JANUARY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 32 b&w photographs, selected
discography, index
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-61703-916-4
Ebook available
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Now in
paperback
Community, Pedagogy, and
Canon in the Information Age
Ken Prouty
Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims
to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz’s identity, its
canon, and its community. Every jazz artist, critic, or fan understands
jazz differently, based on each individual’s unique experiences and
insights. Through playing, listening, reading, and talking about jazz,
both as a form of musical expression and as a marker of identity, each
aficionado develops a personalized
relationship to the larger jazz world.
Through the increasingly important
role of media, listeners also engage in
the formation of different communities that transcend not only traditional
boundaries of geography, but increasingly exist only in the virtual world.
The relationships of “jazz people”
within and between these communities is at the center of Knowing Jazz.
Some communities, such as those in
academia, reflect a clash of sensibilities
between historical traditions. Others, particularly those who inhabit
cyberspace, represent new and excitHow the claim to jazz
ing avenues for everyday fans, whose
involvement in jazz has often been
knowledge forges
ignored. Other communities seek to
community and forms
define themselves as expressions of
national or global sensibility, pointing
an understanding of
to the ever-changing nature of jazz’s
canon
identity as an American art form in an
international setting. What all these
communities share, however, is an intimate, visceral link to the music and the artists who make it, brought to
life through the medium of recording. Informed by an interdisciplinary
approach and approaching the topic from a number of perspectives,
Knowing Jazz charts a philosophical course in which many disparate
perspectives and varied opinions on jazz can find common ground.
Ken Prouty, Lansing, Michigan, is assistant professor of musicology
and jazz studies at Michigan State University. His work has appeared
in numerous journals, including Journal of Music History Pedagogy,
Critical Studies in Improvisation, Popular Music and Society, Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education, Research and Issues in Music
Education, and International Jazz Archives Journal.
NOVEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-944-7
Ebook available
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MEMOIR F CIVIL RIGHTS
BIOGRAPHY F MISSISSIPPI F POLITICS
Freedom Rider Diary
William F. Winter and
the New Mississippi
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Carol Ruth Silver
Introduction by Raymond Aresnault
Photo essay by Claude A. Liggins
Afterword by Cherie A. Gaines
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a
twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the
Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She
chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which
amazingly she was able to smuggle out.
These raw written scraps she fashioned
into a manuscript, which has waited,
unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is that account.
Freedom Riders were civil rights
activists who rode interstate buses
into the segregated southern United
States in 1961 to test the U.S. Supreme
Court rulings outlawing segregation in
interstate bus and terminal facilities.
Brutality and arrests inflicted on the
Riders called national attention to the
disregard for federal law and the local
One woman’s
violence used to enforce segregation.
harrowing,
Police arrested Riders for trespassing,
unlawful assembly, and violating state
unforgettable
and local Jim Crow laws, along with
account from the nadir other alleged offenses, but they often
allowed white mobs to attack the Riders
of Jim Crow Mississippi
without arrest or intervention.
Though a number of books recount
the Freedom Rides as part of the larger
civil rights story, this book offers a heretofore unavailable detailed diary
from a woman Freedom Rider along with an introduction by historian
Raymond Arsenault, author of the definitive history of the Freedom
Rides. In a personal essay detailing her life before and after the Freedom Rides, Silver explores what led her to join the movement and
explains how, galvanized by her actions and those of her compatriots
in 1961, she spent her life and career fighting for civil rights. Framing
essays and personal and historical photographs make the diary an ideal
book for the general public, scholars, and students of the movement
that changed America.
Carol Ruth Silver, San Francisco, California, is a retired lawyer,
activist, and former elected official. She currently appears as a speaker
for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition opposing the U.S. policy
of drug prohibition and has been working for the past ten years to
enhance education, particularly for women and girls, in Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 45 b&w photographs, introduction,
foreword, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-887-7
Ebook available
Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
4
A Biography
Charles C. Bolton
For more than six decades, William F. Winter (b. 1923) has been one
of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. His political
career spanned the 1940s through the early 1980s, from his initial
foray into Mississippi politics as James Eastland’s driver during his
1942 campaign for the United States Senate, as state legislator, as state
tax collector, as state treasurer, and as
lieutenant governor. Winter served
as governor of the state of Mississippi
from 1980 to 1984.
A voice of reason and compromise
during the tumultuous civil rights
battles, Winter represented the earliest
embodiment of the white moderate
politicians who emerged throughout the
“New South.” His leadership played a
pivotal role in ushering in the New Mississippi: a society that moved beyond
the racial caste system that had defined
life in the state for almost a century after
emancipation. In many ways, Winter’s
story over nine decades is also the story
The life story of the
of the evolution of Mississippi in the
second half of the twentieth century.
governor known
Winter has remained active in
for his fight for
public life since retiring from politics
following an unsuccessful U.S. Senate
education and racial
campaign against Thad Cochran in
reconciliation
1984. During the last twenty-five years,
Winter has worked with a variety of
organizations to champion issues that
have always been central to his vision of how to advance the interests
of his native state and the South as a whole. Improving the economy,
upgrading the educational system, and facilitating racial reconciliation
are goals he has pursued with passion. The first biography of this pivotal figure, William F. Winter and the New Mississippi traces his life and
influences from boyhood days in Grenada County, through his service
in World War II, and through his long career serving Mississippi.
Charles C. Bolton, Greensboro, North Carolina, is professor and
head of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He
is the author of The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980 (University Press of Mississippi) and
coeditor of With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board
of Education.
OCTOBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 30 b&w photographs (approx.), index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-787-0
Ebook available
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MEMOIR F LAW F POLITICS
TRUE CRIME F SOUTHERN STATES F MISSISSIPPI
The Nominee
Power, Greed, and Hubris
Leslie H. Southwick
James R. Crockett
President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to
the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially,
Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of
research it had conducted on opinions of the state court on which he
had served for twelve years. Two opinions Southwick had signed off
on but not written became the center of the debate over the next five
months. One dealt with a racial slur by
a state worker, the other with a child
custody battle between a father and a
bisexual mother. Apparent bipartisan
agreement for a quick confirmation
turned into a long set of battles in the
Judiciary Committee, on the floor of
the Senate, and in the media.
In early August, Senator Dianne
Feinstein completely surprised her committee colleagues by supporting Southwick. Hers was the one Democratic vote
needed to move the nomination to the
full Senate. Then in late October, by a
two-vote margin, he received the votes
needed to end a filibuster. Confirmation
A firsthand account
followed.
Southwick recounts the four years
of the murky, faithhe spent at the Department of Justice,
straining processes by the twelve years on a state court, and his
military service in Iraq while deployed
which Federal judges
with a Mississippi National Guard Briare confirmed
gade. During the nomination inferno
Southwick maintained a diary of the
many events, the conversations and
emails, the joys and despairs, and quite often, the prayers and sense
of peace his faith gave him—his memoir bears significant spiritual
content. Throughout the struggle, Southwick learned that perspective
and growth are important to all of us when making decisions, and he
grew to accept his critics, regardless of outcome. In The Nominee there
is no rancor, and instead the book expresses the understanding that the
difficult road to success was the most helpful one for him, both as a man
and as a judge.
From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi’s legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie)
Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter
proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former
state auditor were alleged to have attempted to bribe or to have actually bribed five state judges to rule in favor of Minor and Scruggs in
several lawsuits. This is the story of how federal authorities, following
up on information provided by a bank
examiner and a judge who could not
be bribed, toppled Minor, Scruggs, and
their enablers in what was exposed as
the most significant legal scandal of
twenty-first-century Mississippi.
James R. Crockett details the convoluted schemes that eventually put
three of the judges, six of the attorneys,
and the former auditor in federal prison.
All of the men involved were successful
professionals and three of them, Minor,
Scruggs, and fellow attorney Joey
Langston, were exceptionally wealthy.
The stories involve power, greed, but
most of all hubris. The culprits rationalized abominable choices and illicit
An infuriating tale of
actions to influence judicial decisions.
malfeasance among
The crimes came to light in those six
what should have
years, but some crimes were committed
before that. These men put themselves
been the state’s most
above the law and produced the perfect
trusted servants
storm of bribery that ended in disgrace.
The tales Crockett relates about
these scandals and the actions of Paul Minor and Richard Scruggs are
almost unbelievable. Individuals willingly became their minions in
power plays designed to distort the very rule of law that most of them
had sworn to uphold.
A Political and Spiritual Journey
Leslie H. Southwick, Jackson, Mississippi, is Circuit Judge for the
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
NOVEMBER, 336 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w photographs, appendix,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-912-6
Ebook available
Judicial Bribery in Mississippi
James R. Crockett, Madison, Mississippi, is professor emeritus
at the University of Southern Mississippi and adjunct professor of
accountancy at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Hands
in the Till: Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi and Operation Pretense: The FBI’s Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi, both
published by the University Press of Mississippi.
JANUARY, 288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $40.00R 978-1-61703-918-8
Ebook available
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LITERARY CRITICISM F PHOTOGRAPHY
LITERATURE F NATURE
A Tyrannous Eye
Eudora Welty’s World
Pearl Amelia McHaney
Edited by Patti Carr Black
Watercolors by Robin Whitfield
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, letters, essays, autobiography, and photographs.
Each chapter focuses on one genre, filling in gaps left by previous books. With
keen skills of observation, finely tuned
senses, intellect, wit, awareness of
audience, and modesty, Welty applied
her genius in all that she did, holding
a tough line on truth, breaking through
“the veil of indifference to each other’s
presence, each other’s wonder, each
other’s plight.”
McHaney’s study brings critical
attention to the underevaluated genres
of Welty’s work and discusses the purposeful use of arguments, examples,
and styles, demonstrating that Welty
pursued her craft to a high standard
across genres with a greater awareness
The first full-length
of context than she admitted in her
treatment of Welty’s
numerous interviews. Welty consiscriticism and visual
tently dared new styles, new audiences,
and new publishing venues in order to
work
express her ideas to their fullest, always
with readers in mind. It is “serious daring,” as she wrote in One Writer’s Beginnings, that makes for great writing. In
“Place in Fiction,” Welty asks, “How can you go out on a limb if you do
not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
And risk—experiment—is a considerable part of the joy of doing.”
Eudora Welty, one of America’s most celebrated writers, was born in
Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. Although she traveled widely and often,
she lived most of her life on Pinehurst Street in Jackson’s Belhaven subdivision, writing—with quiet power and eloquence—stories, novels,
essays, and book reviews. Her literary career spanned seven decades
and brought her international
fame and many honors. She
received the Pulitzer Prize
for her novel The Optimist’s
Daughter. After her death in
2001, her house became the
property of the Mississippi
Department of Archives and
History to be operated as a
literary house museum. It has
been designated a National
Historic Landmark.
The
selections
in
An artful tribute selecting
Eudora Welty’s World, taken
Welty’s best quotes on
from her novels and short
stories, are offered not only
nature’s wonders
for their descriptive quality,
but for her imaginative and
provocative use of words. Welty was deeply attuned to the natural
world. As a young woman she enjoyed long walks and country hikes,
for thirty years she was an active gardener as her mother’s “yard boy,” in
later years she relished drives in the countryside, and at the end of her
life she was still watching squirrels “spiral down” the oak tree outside
her window. Her powers of observation were keen and constantly at
work. As a passenger in a car, she could spot a rabbit in a field passing it
at sixty-five miles an hour. Welty’s knowledge of and pleasure in nature
is abundantly apparent in her fiction. This small book is for Welty’s
many fans, for lovers of nature, and above all, lovers of language.
Pearl Amelia McHaney, Decatur, Georgia, is associate dean for fine
arts, director of the Center for Collaborative and International Arts,
and associate professor of English at Georgia State University. She has
edited multiple volumes of Eudora Welty’s work, including Occasions:
Selected Essays; Eudora Welty as Photographer; and A Writer’s Eye:
Collected Book Reviews, all published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Patti Carr Black, Jackson, Mississippi, former director of the Old
Capitol Museum in Jackson, is the author of several books on Mississippi’s cultural history, including Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Southern Writers Quiz Book; and Touring Literary Mississippi, all published
by the University Press of Mississippi. robin whitfield, Grenada,
Mississippi, studied painting at Delta State University and works for
Communities in Schools of Greenwood Leflore, Inc.
JANUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w photographs, bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-61703-926-3
Ebook available
AVAILABLE, 92 pages, 9½ x 6½ inches, 8 color illustrations
Cloth $30.00T 978-0-9669782-7-8
Distributed for New Stage Theatre
Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction
and Photographs
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ART F BIOGRAPHY F MISSISSIPPI
FOLK ART F FOLKLORE
George Ohr
The Painted Screens
of Baltimore
Sophisticate and Rube
Ellen J. Lippert
The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered
an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American
art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the
1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this
view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has
hindered serious consideration.
Ellen J. Lippert, in her expansive
study of Ohr and his Gilded Age context, counters this fable. The tumultuous historical moment that Ohr inhabited was a formative force in his life
and work. Using primary documentation, Lippert identifies specific cultural
changes that had the most impact on
Ohr. Developments in visual display
and the altered role of artists, the southerner redefined in the wake of the Civil
War, interest in handicraft as an alternative to rampant mass production,
emerging tenets of social thought seeking to remedy worker exploitation, and
A contextual investiga- new assessments of morals and beauty
as a result of collapsed ideals all played
tion of “the Mad Potter into the positioning Ohr purposefully
designed for himself.
of Biloxi,” showing
The second part of Lippert’s study
him to be far more
applies these observations to Ohr’s body
thoughtful and artful of work, interpreting his stylistic originality to be expressions of the contrathan he was eccentric
dictions and oppositions particular to
late nineteenth-century America. Ohr
threw his inspiration into being both the sophisticate and the “rube,”
the commercial huckster and the selfless artist, the socialist and the
individualist, the “old-fashioned” craftsman and the “artist-genius.” He
created art pottery as both a salable commodity and a priceless creation.
His work could be ugly and deformed (or even obscene) and beautiful.
Lippert reveals that far from isolated, Ohr and his creations were very
much products of his inspired engagement with the late nineteenth
century.
Ellen J. Lippert, Cranberry, Pennsylvania, is an associate professor
of art history and Western humanities at Thiel College.
DECEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 63 b&w/color photographs,
bibliography, index
Cloth $40.00R 978-1-61703-901-0
Ebook available
An Urban Folk Art Revealed
Elaine Eff
Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore rowhouse. Picturesque, practical, and quirky,
window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously
offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore, though they did
not originate there—precursors
date to early eighteenth-century
London. They were a fixture on
fine homes and businesses in
Europe and America throughout the Victorian era. But as the
handmade screen yielded to industrial production, the whimsical artifact of the elite classes
was suddenly transformed into
an item for mass consumption.
Historic examples are now a rarAn exploration of a
ity, but in Baltimore the folk art
homegrown tradition of
is still very much alive.
The Painted Screens of
unexpected beauty and
Baltimore takes a first look at
privacy
this beloved icon of one major
American city through the
words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant,
William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty
and inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day.
The book examines the roots of painted wire cloth, the ethnic communities where painted screens have been at home for a century, and
the future of this art form.
Elaine Eff, Baltimore, Maryland, is the authority on painted screens.
A curator and filmmaker, she has chronicled and conserved living culture as the folklorist for the city of Baltimore and the State of Maryland.
DECEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 10 x 10 inches, 175 b&w/color photographs
(approx.), bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-891-4
Ebook available
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Photograph—Highland’s South Decker Avenue, August 9, 1953, Jack Engleman
Studio, Sunpapers
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COOKING F LOUISIANA F LATINO STUDIES
HISTORY F LOUISIANA
New Orleans con Sabor Latino
New Orleans Memories
The History and Passion of
Latino Cooking
Zella Palmer Cuadra
Photography by Natalie Root
Foreword by Chef Adolfo Garcia
New Orleans con Sabor Latino is a documentary cookbook that draws
on the rich Latino culture and history of New Orleans by focusing
on thirteen New Orleanian Latinos from diverse backgrounds. Their
stories are compelling and reveal
what for too long has been overlooked. The book celebrates the
influence of Latino cuisine on
the food culture of New Orleans
from the eighteenth century to
the influx of Latino migration
post-Katrina and up to today.
From farmers’ markets, finedining restaurants, street cart
vendors, and home cooks, there
isn’t a part of the food industry
that has been left untouched by
this fusion of cultures.
A feature dish of the
Zella Palmer Cuadra visited
and interviewed each creator.
cuisine that has been too
Each dish is placed in historilong overlooked in New
cal context and is presented in
full-color images, along with
Orleans cooking
photographs of the cooks. Latino
culture has left an indelible mark
on classic New Orleans cuisine and its history, and now this contribution is celebrated and recognized in this beautifully illustrated volume.
The cookbook includes a lagniappe (something extra) section of
New Orleans recipes from a Latin perspective. Such creations as seafood paella with shrimp boudin, Puerto Rican po’boy (jibarito) with
grillades, and Cuban chicken soup bring to life this delicious mix of
traditional recipes and new flavors.
Zella palmer cuadra, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a curator, cook,
culinary historian, and writer. She has curated or collaborated on
exhibits at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and the Newcomb Art Gallery in New Orleans and DuSable Museum in Chicago.
She is also editor-in-chief of Poize Magazine. Natalie Root, New
Orleans, Louisiana, a food photographer, has published in several
regional publications, including the cookbook Simply Suppers by Chef
Jennifer Chandler. She created New Orleans Fare, a series of iconic
photographs that exemplify the city’s unique culinary culture. Adolfo
Garcia, New Orleans, Louisiana, is chef and owner of New Orleans
restaurants RioMar, La Boca, a Mano, and Gusto. He has been named
a James Beard semifinalist and one of the top eight Latin chefs in the
country by Hispanic Magazine.
One Writer’s City
Carolyn Kolb
Carolyn Kolb provides a delightful and detailed look into the heart of
her city, New Orleans. She is a former Times-Picayune reporter and
current columnist for New Orleans magazine, where versions of these
essays appeared as “Chronicles of Recent History.” Kolb takes her
readers, both those who live in New Orleans and those who love it as
visitors, on a virtual tour of her favorite people and places. Divided into
sections on Food, Mardi Gras, Literature, and Music, these short essays can
be read in one gulp or devoured slowly
over time. Either way, the reader will
find a welcome companion and guide
in Kolb.
In bringing her stories up to date,
Kolb’s writings reflect an ongoing pattern of life in her fascinating city. Since
the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in
2005, some of these things remembered
will never return. Some of the people
whose stories Kolb tells are no longer
with us. It is important to her, and to
us, that they not be forgotten. Kolb, and
her readers, can honor them by sharing
A passionate native’s
and enjoying their stories. As Kolb says,
“When things fail, when the lights go
salute to the past
out and the roof caves in and the water
and present glories
rises, all that remains, ultimately, is the
story.” This collection of such stories was
of the Crescent City
made with love.
Carolyn Kolb, New Orleans, Louisiana, holds a doctorate in urban
history from the University of New Orleans and teaches Louisiana
history at Tulane University’s School of Continuing Studies. She is the
author of The Dolphin Guide to New Orleans.
OCTOBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 45 b&w photographs, bibliography,
index
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-883-9
Ebook available
All Louisiana titles at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/category/louisiana
NOVEMBER, 160 pages (approx.), 10 x 10 inches, 63 color photographs, foreword,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-895-2
Ebook available
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MEMOIR F RACE RELATIONS
LOUISIANA F POLITICS F ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Fear and What Follows
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Tim Parrish
Ernest Zebrowski and Mariah Zebrowski Leach
“Parrish evokes an era of tremendous social upheaval while investigating his own inner tumult. Due to Parrish’s considerable talent,
this is a beautiful, difficult book that resists easy categorization. To
my knowledge, there is no book that competes with it.”—Audrey
Petty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry’s takeover of
Louisiana—its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling
the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public
stew with myths about the “goodness” of oil and bald-faced public
lies by politicians and the captains of
industry. It is a story of money and
power, greed and corruption, jingoism
and exploitation, pollution and disease,
and the bewilderment and resignation
of too many of the powerless. Most
importantly, Hydrocarbon Hucksters
is a case study of what happens when
a state uncritically hands the oil and
petrochemical industries everything
they desire. Today, Louisiana ranks at
or near the bottom of the fifty states on
virtually every measure related to the
quality of life—income, health, education, environment, public services,
public safety, physical infrastructure,
A piercing study of the and vulnerability to disasters (both
natural and man-made). Nor, contrary
political, economic,
to the claims of the hydrocarbon sector,
and environmental
has there been much in the way of job
creation to offset all of this social grief.
havoc unleashed by
The authors (one a scientist, the
the oil industry
other an environmental lawyer) have
woven together the science, legal history, economic issues, and national
and global contexts of what has happened. Their objective is to raise
enough national awareness to prevent other parts of the United States
from repeating Louisiana’s historical follies. The authors are uncle and
niece, a generation apart, who have melded their conclusions from two
separate tracks.
The Violent Education of a
Christian Racist, A Memoir
Fear and What Follows is a riveting,
unflinching account of the author’s spiral into racist violence during the latter
years of desegregation in 1960s and
1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir,
author and editor Michael Griffith
writes, “This might be a controversial
book, in the best way—controversial
because it speaks to real and intractable
problems and speaks to them with rare
bluntness.”
The narrative of Parrish’s descent
into fear and irrational behavior begins
with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking
in his Southern Baptist church. Living
a life upon this volatile foundation of
The story of a workprejudice and apprehension, Parrish
ing class, Southern
feels destabilized by his brother going
to Vietnam, his own puberty and restBaptist upbringing
lessness, serious family illness, and ecothat transformed
nomic uncertainty. Then a near-fatal
street fight and subsequent stalking by
into a nightmare of
an older sociopath fracture what secubigotry and bullying
rity is left, leaving him terrified and
seemingly helpless.
in Baton Rouge
Parrish comes to believe that he
can only be safe by allying himself with
brute force. This brute influence is a vicious, charismatic racist. Under
this bigot’s terrible sway Parrish, turns to violence in the street and
at school. He is even conflicted about whether he will help commit
murder in order to avenge a friend. At seventeen he must reckon with
all of this as his parents and neighbors grow increasingly afraid that
they are “losing” their neighborhood to African Americans.
Fear and What Follows is an unparalleled story of the complex
roots of southern, urban, working-class racism and white flight, as well
as a story of family, love, and the possibility of redemption.
Tim Parrish, Hamden, Connecticut, is a professor of English in the
MFA Program at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the
author of Red Stick Men (University Press of Mississippi) and the forthcoming novel The Jumper. His work has also been published in over
thirty literary reviews.
SEPTEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches
Cloth $28.00T 978-1-61703-866-2
Ebook available
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil,
Politics, and Environmental Justice
Ernest Zebrowski, St. George Island, Florida, is a former physics
professor who taught in Louisiana for seven years and has explored
most of the nooks and crannies of that state while conducting the
research for this and previous books. He is the author of Global Climate Change; Category 5, The Story of Camille; and The Last Days of
St. Pierre. Mariah Zebrowski Leach, Boulder, Colorado, holds a
J.D. degree and has made environmental forays into each of the fifty
states as well as a handful of foreign countries. She is a contributor to
International Environmental Law in a Nutshell (Fourth Edition).
FEBRUARY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w photographs (approx.), 2 maps,
2 tables, introduction, bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-899-0
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY F FILM
BIOGRAPHY F FILM
Garden of Dreams
Gloria Swanson
Patricia A. DeMaio
Tricia Welsch
The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921–1985), one of the grand
actresses of the twentieth century and one of France’s most notable
stars, considered herself the “oldest discovery” in Hollywood. After
years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight
years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the
1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill earned her the Academy Award in 1960, the first
French actor to win a coveted Oscar.
Though a latecomer to Hollywood,
Signoret was already an international
star who had survived the Nazi occupation of Paris, emerging in 1945 as a
beautiful, promising actress capable of
communicating more emotion through
body language than dialogue alone
could achieve. She gained a reputation
as the thinking man’s sex symbol, and
in several films she portrayed prostitutes with subtlety and depth.
She was fiercely protective of her
privacy. But after winning the Oscar,
she was dragged through the gutter when her second husband, Yves
A biography of the
Montand, had a widely publicized affair
with Marilyn Monroe. Many attributed
stunning French
her rapid aging and alcoholism to this
movie star and her
betrayal. She endured this perception
in silence, all the while demonstrating
complex marriage to
a remarkable capacity to reinvent hersinger and actor Yves
self as a best-selling author, respected
social activist, and revered actress who
Montand
remained in the cinema, her “garden of
dreams,” for over four decades. Patricia
A. DeMaio combines Signoret’s courageous story with Montand’s biography to reveal new information and
insight into Signoret’s humanitarian efforts and the vibrant film career
that sustained her.
Patricia A. DeMaio, Hamden, Connecticut, works as a grants resource
manager with New Haven Public Schools. She has worked in nonprofit
management for over twenty-five years.
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, selfconfident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of
celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media
history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed
their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings
Swanson back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative,
entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman.
Swanson cavorted in slapstick
short films with Charlie Chaplin and
Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille
helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most
talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every
week, and living up to a reputation as
Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur
and feathers, and flitted through Paris,
London, and New York engaging in
passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals.
Frustrated with the studio system,
A biography of “The
Swanson turned down a million-dollarQueen of Hollywood”
a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some
and her decades
of Hollywood’s most colorful characof successes and
ters—including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von
comebacks in film, art,
Stroheim—she was a million dollars in
fashion, and journalism debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning
her long second act.
Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods
activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a
designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued
to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she
had one of Hollywood’s most famous exit lines—“All right, Mr. DeMille,
I’m ready for my close-up”—the real Gloria Swanson never looked back.
JANUARY, 352 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 16 b&w photographs (approx.),
filmography, bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-60473-569-7
Ebook available
Hollywood Legends Series
Tricia Welsch, Brunswick, Maine, is associate professor on the Marvin H. Green, Jr., Fund and chair of the film studies program at Bowdoin College. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of
Popular Film and Television, Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, the Journal
of Film and Video, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Griffithiana,
and Genre.
The Life of Simone Signoret
Ready for Her Close-Up
SEPTEMBER, 480 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 70 b&w photographs, filmography,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-749-8
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BIOGRAPHY F PERFORMING ARTS
BIOGRAPHY F FILM
Mama Rose’s Turn
Zachary Scott
The True Story of America’s Most
Notorious Stage Mother
Carolyn Quinn
Hers is the show business saga you think you already know—but you
ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc
and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as “The Stage
Mother from Hell” after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy:
A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage. Rose’s full story is
even more striking.
Born fearless on the North Dakota
prairie in 1892, Rose Thompson had a
kind father and a gallivanting mother
who sold lacy finery to prostitutes.
She became an unhappy teenage bride
whose marriage yielded two entrancing
daughters, Louise and June. When June
was discovered to be a child prodigy in
ballet, capable of dancing en pointe by
the age of three, Rose, without benefit
of any theatrical training, set out to
create onstage opportunities for her
magical baby girl—and succeeded.
Rose followed her own star and
created two more in dramatic and
The full story behind
colorful style: “Baby June” became
a child headliner in vaudeville, and
the “Stage Mother
Louise grew up to be the well-known
from Hell” and every
burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. The
rest of Mama Rose’s remarkable
scandal too shocking
story included love affairs with both
for Gypsy: A Musical
men and women, the operation of a
“lesbian pick-up joint” where she sold
Fable
homemade bathtub gin, wild attempts
to extort money from Gypsy and June,
two stints as a chicken farmer, and three allegations of cold-blooded
murder—all of which was deemed unfit for the script of Gypsy. Here, at
last, is the rollicking, wild saga that never made it to the stage.
Carolyn Quinn, Brooklyn, New York, is a historical researcher.
She acts as consultant to playwright DeeJae Cox of the Los Angeles
Women’s Theatre Project, where a new play about Rose Hovick is in
development. Quinn is also a member of the Ziegfeld Society and
serves on the Advisory Council of the Boo-Arts Theatre. Find her at
www.carolynquinn.net
NOVEMBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 62 b&w illustrations, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-853-2
Ebook available
Now in
paperback
Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad
Ronald L. Davis
Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914–1965) was the model for
sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known
roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and the
indolent husband in Mildred Pierce. He garnered further acclaim for
his portrayal of villains in Her Kind of Man, Danger Signal, and South
of St. Louis. Although he earned critical praise for his performance as a
heroic tenant farmer in Jean Renoir’s The Southerner, Scott never quite
escaped typecasting.
In Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s
Sophisticated Cad, Ronald L. Davis
writes an appealing biography of the
film star. Scott grew up in privileged
circumstances—his father was a
distinguished physician; his grandfather was a pioneer cattle baron—
and was expected to follow his father
into medical practice. Instead, Scott
began to pursue a career in theater
while studying at the University of
Texas and subsequently worked his
way on a ship to England to pursue
acting. Upon his return to America,
he began to look for work in New
York.
A biography of the stage
Excelling on stage and screen
and screen star who
throughout the 1940s, Scott seemed
destined for stardom. By the end
could never escape the
of 1950, however, he had suffered
role of dashing villain
through a turbulent divorce. A rafting accident left him badly shaken
and clinically depressed. His frustration over his roles mounted, and he began to drink heavily. He remarried and spent the rest of his career concentrating on stage and television work. Although Scott continued to perform occasionally in films,
he never reclaimed the level of stardom that he had in the mid-1940s.
To reconstruct Scott’s life, Davis uses interviews with Scott and
colleagues and reviews, articles, and archival correspondence from
the Scott papers at the University of Texas and from the Warner Bros.
Archives. The result is a portrait of a talented actor who was rarely
allowed to show his versatility on the screen.
Ronald L. Davis, Wimberley, Texas, is professor emeritus of history
at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of several books on
Hollywood, including Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream; The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood’s Big Studio System;
and Van Johnson: MGM’s Golden Boy (University Press of Mississippi).
SEPTEMBER, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w photographs, filmography, index
Paper $25.00S 978-1-61703-907-2
Ebook available
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FILM F BIOGRAPHY
FILM F BIOGRAPHY
Agnès Varda
Peter Weir
Edited by T. Jefferson Kline
Edited by John C. Tibbetts
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) gave interviews that
are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous
status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by
the cinematic establishment in France. Varda’s first film, La Pointe
Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later
films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Godard’s
Breathless. In a low-budget film, using
(as yet) unknown actors and working
entirely outside the prevailing studio
system, Varda completely abandoned
the “tradition of quality” that Truffaut
was at that very time condemning in
the pages of Cahiers du cinéma. Her
work, however, was not “discovered”
until after Truffaut and Godard had
broken onto the scene in 1959. Varda’s
next film, Cleo from 5 to 7, attracted
considerably more attention and was
selected as France’s official entry for the
Festival in Cannes. Ultimately, however,
this film and her work for the next fifty
years continued to be overshadowed by
“I could have told you
her more famous male friends, many of
whom she mentored and advised.
the same things that
Her films have finally earned
are in the film by just
recognition as deeply probing and fundamental to the growing awareness in
talking to you for six
France of women’s issues and the role of
hours. But instead I
women in the cinema. “I’m not philosophical,” she says, “not metaphysical.
found shapes.”
Feelings are the ground on which
people can be led to think about things.
I try to show everything that happens in such a way and ask questions
so as to leave the viewers free to make their own judgments.” The panoply of interviews here emphasize her core belief that “we never stop
learning” and reveal the wealth of ways to answer her questions.
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published
on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has
acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these
interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal
him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about
“the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to
experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film,
when he tells a scriptwriter, “I’m going
to eat your script; it’s going to be part of
my blood!”; and his self-assessment as
“merely a jester, with cap and bells, going
from court to court.” He is encouraged,
even provoked to tell his own story,
from his childhood in a Sydney suburb
in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in
the Australian television industry in
the 1960s, his preparations to shoot
his first features in the early 1970s, his
international celebrity in Australia and
Hollywood. An extensive new interview
details his current plans for a new film.
Interviews discuss Weir’s diverse
and impressive range of work—his
“And suddenly, I knew
earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The
Last Wave, Gallipoli, and The Year of
this was somehow
Living Dangerously, as well as Academy
meaningful to me in
Award–nominated Witness, Dead Poets
my own life as a film
Society, Green Card, The Truman Show,
and Master and Commander. This book
director. Just to
confirms that the trajectory of Weir’s life
be content with the
and work parallels and embodies Australia’s own quest to define and express a
craft and let the art
historical and cultural identity.
take care of itself.”
John C. Tibbetts, Lenexa, Kansas, is
associate professor of film and media
studies at the University of Kansas. His recent books are The Gothic
Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction
in the Media; Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography;
Schumann: A Chorus of Voices; and the three-volume American Classic
Screen.
Interviews
T. Jefferson Kline, Brookline, Massachusetts, is professor of French
at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including
Unraveling French Cinema: From L’ Atalante to Caché, and he is coeditor of Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi).
DECEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography,
index
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University Press of Mississippi
Interviews
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FILM F BIOGRAPHY
Quentin Tarantino
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Recently in the
CONVERSATIONS WITH
FILMMAKERS SERIES
Edited by Gerald Peary
Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream
saga of a self-proclaimed “film geek,” with five intense years working in
a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and
imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes
Quentin Tarantino’s reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs
(1992), through Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), his
enchanted homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute
to guys-on-a-mission World War II
movie, Inglourious Basterds (2009).
For those who prefer a more mature,
contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching Jackie
Brown (1997). A masterpiece? Pulp
Fiction (1994). A delightful mash of
unabashed exploitation and felt social
consciousness? His latest opus, Django
Unchained (2012).
From the beginning, Tarantino
(b. 1963)—affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of
movies—has been a journalist’s dream.
Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, revised
and updated with twelve new inter“Rather than spend
views, is a joy to read cover to cover
$600,000 for film school, because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his
spend $6,000 for a movie. own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He
That’s the best film
is frank and revealing about growing up
school in the world.”
in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth
grade to take acting classes. Lost and
confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided he
would be a filmmaker.
Tarantino has conceded that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in Jackie Brown, is an autobiographical portrait. “If I hadn’t wanted to make movies, I would have ended up
as Ordell,” Tarantino has explained. “I wouldn’t have been a postman
or worked at the phone company. . . . I would have gone to jail.”
Gerald Peary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professor of communication and journalism at Suffolk University in Boston, is a film critic for
the Boston Phoenix and the editor of John Ford: Interviews and Samuel
Fuller: Interviews. He is the series editor of the Conversations with
Filmmakers series.
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Clint Eastwood
James Cameron
Interviews, Revised
and Updated
Edited by Robert E. Kapsis
and Kathie Coblentz
Interviews
Edited by Brent Dunham
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John Waters
Dennis Hopper
Interviews
Edited by Nick Dawson
Interviews
Edited by James Egan
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ms.us/search/series/6
Robert Rodriguez
Interviews
Edited by Zachary Ingle
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FILM STUDIES F LITERATURE
FILM STUDIES
Stanley Kubrick
The Crime Films of
Anthony Mann
Elisa Pezzotta
Max Alvarez
Adapting the Sublime
Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films
deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all
cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author Elisa Pezzotta contends, it is for these reasons
that his cinema becomes the supreme embodiment of the sublime,
fruitful encounter between the two arts and, simultaneously, of their
independence.
Stanley Kubrick’s last six adaptations—2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon
(1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal
Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut
(1999)—are characterized by certain
structural and stylistic patterns. These
features help to draw conclusions about
the role of Kubrick in the history of
cinema, about his role as an adapter,
and, more generally, about the art of
cinematic adaptations. The structural
and stylistic patterns that characterize
Kubrick adaptations seem to criticize
scientific reasoning, causality, and
An argument
traditional semantics. In the history of
cinema, Kubrick can be considered a
appreciating and
modernist auteur. In particular, he can
mapping the wide
be regarded as an heir of the modernist avant-garde of the 1920s. However,
divergences in
author Elisa Pezzotta concludes that,
the director’s
unlike his predecessors, Kubrick creates a cinema not only centered on the
interpretations of
ontology of the medium, but on the
literature
staging of sublime, new experiences.
Elisa Pezzotta, Albino, Italy, is cultore della materia of history and
critique of cinema at the University of Bergamo. Her work has been
published in Wide Screen, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media,
and Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and she is the
author of “La narrazione complessa nel cinema di Stanley Kubrick:
2001: Odissea nello spazio e Eyes Wide Shut” in Ai confini della camprensione.
SEPTEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 24 tables and
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Anthony Mann (1906–1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s
westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester ’73, The Naked Spur, The
Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann’s cinematic universe
than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and
secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed
fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among
them such towering achievements in film noir as T-Men, Raw Deal,
and Side Street. Mann was as much
at home filming dark urban alleys in
black-and-white as he was the prairies
and mountains in Technicolor, and his
protagonists were no less conflicted and
secretive than his 1950s cowboys.
In these Mann crime thrillers we
find powerful stories of sexual obsession (The Great Flamarion), the transforming images of women in wartime
and postwar America (Strangers in the
Night, Strange Impersonation), exploitation of Mexican immigrants (Border
Incident), studies of the criminal mind
(He Walked by Night), and Civil War
bigotry (The Tall Target). Mann’s forceA survey and
ful camera captured such memorable
and diverse stars as Erich von Stroheim,
rediscovery of the
Farley Granger, Dennis O’Keefe, Claire
many noir films
Trevor, Richard Basehart, Ricardo
directed by a master
Montalbán, Ruby Dee, and Raymond
Burr.
of the Western
The Crime Films of Anthony Mann
features analysis of rare documents,
screenplays, story treatments, and studio memoranda and reveals detailed behind-the-scenes information
on preproduction and production on the Mann thrillers. Author Max
Alvarez uses rare and newly available sources to explore the creation of
these noir masterworks. Along the way, the book exposes secrets and
solves mysteries surrounding the mercurial director and his remarkable career, which also included Broadway and early live television.
Max Alvarez, New York, New York, is the author of Index to Motion
Pictures Reviewed by Variety: 1907–1980 and coeditor of Harrison’s
Reports Film Review Index, 1919–1962. His work has been published
in Film History: An International Journal; Independent Film & Video
Monthly; and Cinecittà Magazine.
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FILM STUDIES F MUSIC F PERFORMING ARTS
FILM F POPULAR CULTURE F WOMEN’S STUDIES
Hip Hop on Film
Dangerous Curves
Kimberley Monteyne
Jeffrey A. Brown
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema
history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip
Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin’ (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to
illuminate Hollywood’s fascinating efforts to incorporate this nascent
urban culture into conventional narrative forms. Such films presented
musical conventions against the backdrop of graffiti-splattered trains and
abandoned tenements in urban communities of color, setting the stage for
radical social and political transformations. Hip hop musicals are also part
of the broader history of teen cinema,
and films such as Charlie Ahearn’s Wild
Style (1983) are here examined alongside other contemporary youth-oriented
productions. As suburban teen films
banished parents and children to the
margins of narrative action, hip hop
musicals, by contrast, presented inclusive
and unconventional filial groupings that
included all members of the neighborhood. These alternative social configuraA reclamation and
tions directly referenced specific urban
interpretation of a
social problems, which affected the
stability of inner city families following
once-dismissed aspect
diminished governmental assistance in
of American film history communities of color during the 1980s.
Breakdancing, a central element of
hip hop musicals, is also reconsidered. It gained widespread acclaim
at the same time that these films entered the theaters, but the nation’s
newly discovered dance form was embattled—caught between a multitude of institutional entities such as the ballet academy, advertising
culture, and dance publications that vied to control its meaning, particularly in relation to delineations of gender. As street-trained breakers
were enticed to join the world of professional ballet, this newly forged
relationship was recast by dance promoters as a way to invigorate and
“remasculinize” European dance, while young women simultaneously
critiqued conventional masculinities through an appropriation of
breakdance. These multiple and volatile histories influenced the first
wave of hip hop films, and even structured the sleeper hit Flashdance.
This forgotten, ignored, and maligned cinema is not only an important
aspect of hip hop history, but is also central to the histories of teen
film, the postclassical musical, and even institutional dance. Kimberley
Monteyne places these films within the wider context of their cultural
antecedents and reconsiders the genre’s influence.
Kimberley Monteyne, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is
currently teaching at the University of British Columbia and has also
taught at New York University and the Chelsea College of Art (UK).
Her work has appeared in Youth Culture in Global Cinema.
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular
Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of
the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the
late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character
type, the action heroine, as an example of, and challenge to, existing
theories about gender as a performance identity. Her assumption
of heroic masculine traits combined
with her sexualized physical depiction
demonstrates the ambiguous nature
of traditional gender expectations and
indicates a growing awareness of more
aggressive and violent roles for women.
The excessive sexual fetishization
of action heroines is a central theme
throughout. The topic is analyzed as
an insight into the transgressive image
of the dominatrix, as a reflection of
the shift in popular feminism from
second-wave politics to third-wave and
postfeminist pleasures, and as a form
of patriarchal backlash that facilitates a
masculine fantasy of controlling strong
A consideration of the female characters. Brown interprets the
action heroine as a representation of
many manifestations
changing gender dynamics that balances
of the action heroine
the sexual objectification of women with
progressive models of female strength.
While the primary focus of this study is the action heroine as represented in Hollywood film and television, the book also includes the
action heroine’s emergence in contemporary popular literature, comic
books, cartoons, and video games.
Performance Culture, Urban Space,
and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Now in
paperback
Action Heroines, Gender,
Fetishism, and Popular Culture
Jeffrey A. Brown, Bowling Green, Ohio, is an associate professor of
popular culture at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans (University Press
of Mississippi).
SEPTEMBER, 278 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
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TELEVISION F FILM F BIOGRAPHY
COMICS F POPULAR CULTURE F BIOGRAPHY
Alan Ball
Chester Brown
Edited by Thomas Fahy
Edited by Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman
Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball’s entire
career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy
Award–winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award–winning
television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career
as a playwright in New York, and his work soon caught the attention
of Hollywood television producers. After writing for the sitcoms Grace
Under Fire and Cybill, Ball turned his attention to the screenplay that
would become American Beauty. The
critical success of this film opened up
exciting possibilities for him in the
realm of television. He created the critically acclaimed show Six Feet Under,
and after the series finale, he decided
to explore the issue of American
bigotry toward the Middle East in his
2007 play All That I Will Ever Be and
the film Towelhead, which he adapted
and directed in the same year. Ball
returned to television once again with
the series True Blood—an adaptation of
the humorous, entertaining, and erotic
world of Charlaine Harris’s vampire
novels. In 2012 Ball announced that he
“Theater is more
would step down as executive producer
of True Blood, in part, to produce both
language-oriented—
a new television series and his latest
you can luxuriate in
screenplay, What’s the Matter with
Margie?
words, in rhythm, in
The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics—in subject
matter, artistic integrity, and creators’ rights—as new methods of
publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those
artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown (b. 1960) quickly
developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983–1994).
Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all
facets of the cartoonist’s long career
and includes several pieces from
now-defunct periodicals and fanzines.
Brown was among a new generation
of artists whose work dealt with decidedly nonmainstream subjects. By the
1980s comics were, to quote a by-now
well-worn phrase, “not just for kids
anymore,” and subsequent censorious
attacks by parents concerned about the
more salacious material being published
by the major publishers—subjects that
routinely included adult language, realistic violence, drug use, and sexual content—began to roil the industry. Yummy
Fur came of age during this storm and
“Even if I was still an
its often-offensive content, including
anarchist, it would
dismembered, talking penises, led to
controversy and censorship.
have no bearing on
With Brown’s highly unconvenmy creative process.
tional adaptations of the Gospels, and
such comics memoirs as The Playboy
Anarchism is a politi(1991/1992) and I Never Liked You
cal ideology, not an
(1991–1994), Brown gradually moved
away from the surrealistic, humorartistic one.”
oriented strips toward autobiographical
material far more restrained and elegiac
in tone than his earlier strips. This work was followed by Louis Riel
(1999–2003), Brown’s critically acclaimed comic book biography of the
controversial nineteenth-century Canadian revolutionary, and Paying
for It (2011), his best-selling memoir on the life of a john.
Conversations
the music and poetry
of language. Film is
like a dream—you can
tell a story visually,
with really beautiful
images and symbols
and subconscious
currents and mythic
moments. TV for me is
like a novel because
you can continue to
develop a story over
hours and hours and
hours.”
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Conversations
Thomas Fahy, New York, New York,
is associate professor of English and
director of American studies at Long
Island University, C. W. Post Campus.
He is the author of Staging Modern
American Life: Popular Culture in the
Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos and editor of
Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Death,
Sexuality, and the American Dream, as
well as several other books.
SEPTEMBER, 176 pages (approx.),
6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Printed casebinding $50.00S
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Dominick Grace, London, Ontario, Canada, is an associate professor
of English at Brescia University College. Eric Hoffman, Vernon, Connecticut, is the editor of Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the
Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard. Together Grace and Hoffman edited Dave Sim: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi).
NOVEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 40 b&w line illustrations (approx.),
introduction, chronology, index
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COMICS F POPULAR CULTURE F GENDER STUDIES
LITERARY CRITICISM F RELIGION–CHRISTIANITY
Drawing from Life
Plotting Apocalypse
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Edited by Jane Tolmie
Reading, Agency, and Identity in the
Left Behind Series
Jennie Chapman
Essays by Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher
Bush, Isaac Cates, Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O’Brien,
Davida Pines, Yaël Schlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin Widiss
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 Life: Memory and
Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection
of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in
sequential art, or comics. Contributors
come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American
studies, comparative literature, gender
studies, art history, and cultural
studies. The book engages with wellknown figures such as Art Spiegelman,
Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel;
Essays that query the
with cult-status figures such as Martin
roles of trust, truth,
Vaughn James; and with lesser-known
works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.
and family memoirs
Negotiations between artist/writer/
in autobiographical
body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity,
comics
and are read and perceived, requiring
a critical turn towards theorizing the
comics’ viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is
embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in
sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke
first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man
or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist
must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do
so with fascinating results.
Jane Tolmie, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is associate professor of gender studies and cultural studies, cross-appointed to English at Queen’s
University. Find her at http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/tolmie.php
It is the not-too-distant future, and the rapture has occurred. Every
born-again Christian on the planet has, without prior warning, been
snatched from the earth to meet Christ in the heavens, while all those
without the requisite faith have been left behind to suffer the wrath of
the Antichrist as the earth enters into its final days.
This is the premise that animates the enormously popular cultural
phenomenon that is the Left Behind
series of prophecy novels, co-written
An examination of the
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and
published between 1995 and 2007. But
entire Left Behind
these books are more than fiction: it is
sequence with a
the sincere belief of many evangelicals
that these events actually will occur—
combined sensitivity
soon. Plotting Apocalypse delves into
to evangelical belief
the world of rapture, prophecy, and
tribulation in order to account for the
and close textual
extraordinary cultural salience of these
readings
books and the impact of the world they
project. Through penetrating readings
of the novels, Chapman shows how
the series offers a new model of evangelical agency for its readership.
The novels teach that although believers are incapable of changing the
course of a future that has been preordained by God, they can become
empowered by learning to read the prophetic books of the Bible—and
the signs of the times—correctly. Reading and interpretation become
key indices of agency in the world that Left Behind limns.
Plotting Apocalypse reveals the significant cultural work that Left
Behind performs in developing a counter-narrative to the passivity and
fatalism that can characterize evangelical prophecy belief. Chapman’s
arguments may bear profound implications for the future of American
evangelicalism and its interactions with culture, society, and politics.
Jennie Chapman, Hull, United Kingdom, is lecturer in twentiethcentury American literature at the University of Hull. Her work has
been published in Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Utopian
Studies, and Journal of American Studies and various edited collections
on evangelical prophecy belief, apocalypse and popular culture, and
religion and literature.
OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
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LITERATURE F BIOGRAPHY F AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
LITERATURE F BIOGRAPHY
Conversations with
Natasha Trethewey
Conversations with
Stanley Kunitz
Edited by Joan Wylie Hall
Edited by Kent P. Ljungquist
United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her
mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs
each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide. In compact
sonnets, elegant villanelles, ballad stanzas, and free verse, she creates monuments to mixed-race children of colonial Mexico, African
American soldiers from the Civil War, a beautiful prostitute in 1910
New Orleans, and domestic workers from the twentieth-century North
and South.
Because her white father and her
black mother could not marry legally
in Mississippi, Trethewey says she
was “given” her subject matter as “the
daughter of miscegenation.” A sense of
psychological exile is evident from her
first collection, Domestic Work (2000),
to the recent Thrall (2012). Biracial
people of the Americas are a major
focus of her poetry and her prose book
Beyond Katrina, a meditation on family,
community, and the natural environment of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The interviews featured within
Conversations with Natasha Trethewey
provide intriguing artistic and bio“I want the largest
graphical insights into her work. The
possible audience
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet cites
diverse influences, from Anne Frank
of people to be
to Seamus Heaney. She emotionally
welcomed into my
acknowledges Rita Dove’s large impact,
poems and to use
and she boldly positions herself in the
southern literary tradition of Faulkner
the most important
and Robert Penn Warren. Commentmuscle human beings
ing on “Pastoral,” “South,” and other
poems, Trethewey guides readers to
have, which is the
deeper perception and empathy.
muscle of empathy.”
Joan Wylie Hall, Oxford, Mississippi, is a lecturer in the English
department at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shirley
Jackson: Studies in Short Fiction and the editor of Conversations with
Audre Lorde (University Press of Mississippi). Her work has also been
published in numerous journals such as Legacy: A Journal of American
Women Writers; Southern Register; Mississippi Quarterly; Faulkner
Journal; and the Eudora Welty Review.
“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 distinguished career. They touch on aesthetic
motifs in his poetry, the roots of his work, his friendships in the sister
arts of painting and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his comments on a
host of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens,
and Anna Akhmatova.
Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized
industrial town in central Massachusetts, surviving family tragedy and a
sense of personal isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the power of
the human imagination. Kunitz has
commented, “If we want to know
what it felt like to be alive at any given
moment in the long odyssey of the race,
it is to poetry we must turn.” His own
odyssey from “metaphysical loneliness”
to a sense of community with fellow
“Poetry, I have
writers and artists—by building instiinsisted, is ultimately
tutions like Poets House and the Fine
Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
mythology, the
Massachusetts—is ever present in these
telling of the soul’s
interviews.
adventure in time and
Kent P. Ljungquist, Jefferson, Mashistory.”
sachusetts, is a professor of English at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is
the editor of Antebellum Authors in New York and the author of The
Grand and the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques.
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BIOGRAPHY F WOMEN’S STUDIES F IRISH LITERATURE
LITERARY CRITICISM F LOUISIANA
Conversations with
Edna O’Brien
Louisiana Creole Literature
Edited by Alice Hughes Kersnowski
Catharine Savage Brosman
“Who’s Afraid of Edna O’Brien?” asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O’Brien. With over fifty years of published novels,
biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be
intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O’Brien
(b. 1932) saw her early works, starting in 1960 with The Country Girls,
banned and burned in Ireland, but often read in secret. Her contemporary work continues to spark debates on the rigors and challenges of
Catholic conservatism and the struggle
for women to make a place for themselves in the world without anxiety and
guilt. The raw nerve of emotion at the
heart of her lyrical prose provokes readers, challenges politicians, and proves
difficult for critics to place her.
In these interviews, O’Brien finds
her own critical voice and moves
interviewers away from a focus on
her life as the “once infamous Edna”
toward a focus on her works. Parallels
between Edna O’Brien and her literary
muse and mentor, James Joyce, are
often cited in interviews such as Phillip Roth’s description of The Country
Girls as “rural Dubliners.” While Joyce
“I am suspicious of
is the centerpiece of O’Brien’s literary
this word ‘art’—what
pantheon, allusions to writers such as
Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, and
does it mean?—I write
Woolf become a medium for her critiserious books about
cal voice. Conversations with contemporary writers Phillip Roth and Glenn
real life. Language is
Patterson reveal Edna O’Brien’s sense of
my tool, I want words
herself as a contemporary writer. The
final interview included here, with BBC
to breathe on the
personality William Crawley at Queen’s
page, but feeling is my
University Belfast, is a synthesis of her
acceptance and fame as an Irish writer
agenda.”
and an Irish woman and an affirmation
of her literary authority.
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, the flourishing period during which the term
Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana.
The study consists in part of literary history and biography.
When available and appropriate, each
discussion—arranged chronologically—
A broad overview
provides pertinent personal information
on authors, as well as publishing facts.
of the tremendous
Readers will find also summaries and
achievement of
evaluation of key texts, some virtually
unknown, others of difficult access.
Louisiana writers in
Brosman illuminates the biographies and
the Creole tradition
works of Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn,
George Washington Cable, Grace King,
and Adolphe Duhart, among others. In
addition, she challenges views that appear to be skewed regarding canon
formation. The book places emphasis on poetry and fiction, reaching
from early nineteenth-century writing through the twentieth century to
selected works by poets still writing in the early twenty-first century. A
few plays are treated also, especially by Victor Séjour. Louisiana Creole
Literature examines at length the writings of important Francophone
figures, and certain Anglophone novelists likewise receive extended
treatment. Since much of nineteenth-century Louisiana literature was
transnational, the book considers Creole-based works which appeared
in Paris as well as those published locally.
A Historical Study
Catharine Savage Brosman, Houston, Texas, is professor emerita
of French at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books of
French literary history and criticism, two volumes of nonfiction prose,
and nine collections of poetry.
OCTOBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Alice Hughes Kersnowski, San Antonio, Texas, is a professor of
English at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She is coeditor
of Conversations with Henry Miller (University Press of Mississippi).
JANUARY, 128 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index
Ebook available
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RELIGION F CIVIL RIGHTS F AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES F POPULAR CULTURE F AMERICAN WEST
Mobilizing for the
Common Good
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and
Bronze Buckaroos
Edited by Peter Slade, Charles Marsh, and
Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Michael K. Johnson
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Contributions from Michael Anders, Mae Cannon, Kelly West
Figueroa-Ray, Lisa Sharon Harper, Paul Louis Metzger, A. G. Miller,
Lowell Noble, Ted Ownby, Soong-Chan Rah, Chris Rice, Cheryl J.
Sanders, Ronald J. Sider, Christian T. Collins Winn, and Lauren Winner
Born into a sharecropping family in
New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and
only receiving a third-grade education,
John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice
for reconciliation and social justice to
America’s white evangelical churches.
Often an unwelcome voice and always a passionate, provocative clarion,
Perkins persisted for forty years in
bringing about the formation of the
Christian Community Development
Association—a large network of evangelical churches and community organizations working in America’s poorest
communities—and inspired the emergEssays on the famed
ing generation of young evangelicals
concerned with releasing the Church
activist and preacher,
from its cultural captivity and oppresamong the first to
sive materialism.
John M. Perkins has received surcall for relocation,
prisingly little attention from historeconciliation, and
rians of modern American religious
history and theologians. Mobilizing for
redistribution in a post–
the Common Good is an exploration of
the theological significance of John M.
civil rights America
Perkins. With contributions from theologians, historians, and activists, this book contends that Perkins ushered in a paradigm shift in twentieth-century evangelical theology that
continues to influence Christian community development projects and
social justice activists today.
Peter Slade, Ashland, Ohio, is an associate professor of religion at
Ashland University. He is the author of Open Friendship in a Closed
Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship. Charles
Marsh, Charlottesville, Virginia, is a professor of religious studies and
the director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of multiple titles including Reclaiming Dietrich
Bonheoffer: The Promise of His Theology. Peter Goodwin Heltzel,
New York, New York, is associate professor of theology and the director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary and an
ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is
the author of Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics
and Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation.
Conceptions of the African
American West
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of
texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth
analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out
or underrepresented in studies focused
only on traditional literary material. The
book engages heretofore unexamined
writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for
local Montana newspapers rather than
for a national audience; memoirs and
letters of musicians, performers, and
singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor
Gordon), who lived in or wrote about
touring the American West; the novels
and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast
westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely
unappreciated and unexamined episodes
from the “golden age of western television” that feature African American
actors; film and television westerns that
A study of represenuse science fiction settings to imagine a
tations of blackness
“postracial” or “postsoul” frontier; Percival Everett’s fiction addressing contemin movies, music,
porary black western experience; and
performance art, and
movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino’s
Django Unchained.
popular journalism
Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we
know very little about how the African American past in the West has
been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys
and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African
American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed.
Michael K. Johnson, Farmington, Maine, is professor of English at
University of Maine at Farmington. He is the author of Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, and his work has
been published in African American Review, Literature/Film Quarterly,
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Western American Literature.
FEBRUARY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
SEPTEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, foreword, appendices, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-859-4
Ebook available
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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES F ETHNOGRAPHY
CIVIL RIGHTS F HISTORY F AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Raised Up Down Yonder
The Civil Rights Movement
in Mississippi
Angela McMillan Howell
Edited by Ted Ownby
Raised Up Down Yonder attempts to shift focus away from why black
youth are “problematic” to explore what their daily lives actually entail.
Howell travels to the small community of Hamilton, Alabama, to
investigate what it is like for a young black person to grow up in the
contemporary rural South.
What she finds is that the young people of Hamilton are neither
idly passing their time in a stereotypically languid setting, nor are
they being corrupted by hip hop culture and the perils of the urban north,
as many pundits suggest. Rather, they
are dynamic and diverse young people
making their way through the structures that define the twenty-first-century South. Told through the poignant
stories of several high school students,
Raised Up Down Yonder reveals a
group that is often rendered invisible
in society. Blended families, football
sagas, crunk music, expanding social
networks, and a nearby segregated
prom are just a few of the fascinating
juxtapositions.
Howell uses personal biography,
A classic ethnohistorical accounts, sociolinguistic analgraphic study of
ysis, and community narratives to illustrate persistent racism, class divisions,
rural children, their
and resistance in a new context. She
community, and their
addresses contemporary issues, such
as moral panics regarding the future of
school
youth in America and educational policies that may be well meaning but are
ultimately misguided.
Essays by Chris Myers Asch, Emilye Crosby, David Cunningham,
Jelani Favors, Françoise N. Hamlin, Wesley Hogan, Robert Luckett,
Carter Dalton Lyon, Byron D’Andra Orey, Joseph T. Reiff, Akinyele
Umoja, and Michael Vinson Williams
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
Angela McMillan Howell, Baltimore, Maryland, is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University. Her
work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies
and Anthropology Now.
DECEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches,
these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement
in the state most resistant to change.
Wesley Hogan, Françoise N. Hamlin,
Essays from innovaand Michael Vinson Williams raise
questions about how civil rights
tive, leading scholars
organizing took place. Three pairs of
covering the gamut
essays address African Americans’ and
whites’ stories on education, religion,
of the movement
and the issues of violence. Jelani Favors
and Robert Luckett analyze civil rights
issues on the campuses of Jackson State University and the University
of Mississippi. Carter Dalton Lyon and Joseph T. Reiff study people
who confronted the question of how their religion related to their possible involvement in civil rights activism. By studying the Ku Klux Klan
and the Deacons for Defense in Mississippi, David Cunningham and
Akinyele Umoja ask who chose to use violence or to raise its possibility.
The final three chapters describe some of the consequences and
continuing questions raised by the civil rights movement. Byron
D’Andra Orey analyzes the degree to which voting rights translated
into political power for African American legislators. Chris Myers
Asch studies a Freedom School that started in recent years in the
Mississippi Delta. Emilye Crosby details the conflicting memories of
Claiborne County residents and the parts of the civil rights movement
they recall or ignore.
As a group, the essays introduce numerous new characters and
conundrums into civil rights scholarship, advance efforts to study African Americans and whites as interactive agents in the complex stories,
and encourage historians to pull civil rights scholarship closer toward
the present.
Ted Ownby, Oxford, Mississippi, is professor of history and southern
studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor of The Role of Ideas in
the Civil Rights South; Manners and Southern History; and Black and
White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South, all published by
NOVEMBER, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook available
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
www.upress.state.ms.us/search/series/11
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FOLKLORE F NEW YORK STATE
FOLKLORE F MEDIA STUDIES
New York State
Folklife Reader
Newslore
Diverse Voices
Contemporary Folklore
on the Internet
Edited by Elizabeth Tucker and Ellen McHale
Russell Frank
Contributions from Robert Baron, Edith Bills, Dee Britton, Varick
Chittenden, Lynn Case Ekfelt, Valérie Feschet, Ryn Gargulinski,
Curtis Harris, Gus Hedlund, Dale Johnson, Kay Kennedy, Leota
Lone Dog, Elena Martínez, Karen M. McCurdy, Ellen McHale,
Felicia R. McMahon, Michael L. Murray, Barbara Myerhoff, Sandra
Mizumoto Posey, Cathy Ragland,
Linda Rosekrans, Puja Sahney, Julia
Schmidt-Pirro, Brian Sutton-Smith,
Elizabeth Tucker, Kay Turner, Tom
van Buren, and Steve Zeitlin
New York and its folklore scholars hold
an important place in the history of
the discipline. In New York dialogue
between folklore researchers in the
academy and those working in the
public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New
York’s academic and public folklorists
are presented together.
Unlike some folklore anthologies,
New York State Folklife Reader does not
Over fifty years of
follow an organizational plan based on
regions or genres. Because the New
folklore from the
York Folklore Society has always tried
to “give folklore back to the people,”
Empire State
the editors decided to divide the
edited volume into sections about life
processes that all New York state residents share. The book begins with
five essays on various aspects of folk cultural memory: personal, family,
community, and historical processes of remembrance expressed through
narrative, ritual, and other forms of folklore. Following these essays,
subsequent sections explore aspects of life in New York through the lens
of Play, Work, Resistance, and Food.
Both the New York Folklore Society and its journal were, as
society cofounder Louis Jones explained, “intended to reach not just
the professional folklorists but those of the general public who were
interested in the oral traditions of the State.” Written in an accessible
and readable style, this volume offers a glimpse into New York State’s
rich cultural diversity.
Elizabeth Tucker, Binghamton, New York, is a professor of English
at Binghamton University. She is the author of Campus Legends: A
Handbook; Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses
(University Press of Mississippi); Children’s Folklore: A Handbook;
and Haunted Southern Tier. Ellen McHale, Esperance, New York, is
the executive director of the New York Folklore Society. She has also
served as associate editor for folklore of the Encyclopedia of New York
and has published in Western Folklore.
Now in
paperback
Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of
current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes; urban
legends; digitally altered photographs; mock news stories; press
releases or interoffice memoranda; parodies of songs, poems, and
political and commercial advertisements; movie previews and posters;
still or animated cartoons; and short
live-action films.
In Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet author Russell
Frank offers a snapshot of the items of
newslore disseminated via the Internet
that gained the widest currency around
the turn of the millennium. Among
the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails
and on the Web were Bill and Hillary
Clinton, George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam
Hussein, and such media celebrities as
Princess Diana and Michael Jackson.
The book also looks at the folk response
to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the presidential
“Poetry, I have
elections of 2000 and 2004.
insisted, is ultimately
Frank analyzes this material by
tracing each item back to the news story
mythology, the
it refers to in search of clues as to what,
telling of the soul’s
exactly, the item reveals about the public’s response. His argument throughout
adventure in time and
is that newslore is an extremely useful
history.”
and revelatory gauge for public reaction to current events and an invaluable
screen capture of the latest zeitgeist.
Russell Frank, State College, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of communications at Penn State University and a columnist
for StateCollege.com, as well as a former reporter and columnist for
several newspapers. His work has been published in the Journal of
American Folklore, Western Folklore, New Media and Society, Journal of
Mass Media Ethics, Journalism, Contemporary Legend, Rural Sociology,
Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and
Hartford Courant, among other newspapers.
OCTOBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w illustrations, appendices, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-943-0
Ebook available
OCTOBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 52 b&w photographs, introduction,
appendices, index
Ebook available
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FOLKLORE F AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES F LITERATURE
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE F WHITENESS STUDIES
Black Folklore and the Politics
of Racial Representation
The Souls of White Folk
Shirley Moody-Turner
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from
the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African
American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but
also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often
called into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which
they were engaged.
Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes
this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African
American authors and scholars. She
explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants—rather
than passive observers—in conversations about the politics of representing
black folklore. Examining literary texts,
folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political
rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics
of Racial Representation demonstrates
how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial
identity and difference were asserted
and debated at the turn of the twentiAn examination of how
eth century. The study is framed by two
questions of historical and continuing
nineteenth-century
import. What role have representations
African American folk- of black folklore played in constructing
racial identity? And, how have those
lore studies became a
ideas impacted the way African Amerisite of national debate cans think about and creatively engage
black traditions?
Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light
and context, taking figures we thought we knew—such as Charles
Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history.
Shirley Moody-Turner, State College, Pennsylvania, is an assistant
professor of English specializing in African American literature, critical race studies, and folklore studies at Penn State. She is coeditor of
Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. She has
also published essays in New Essays on the African American Novel,
A Companion to African American Literature, and African American
Review.
African American Writers
Theorize Whiteness
Veronica T. Watson
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American
writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity.
Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African
American writers retreated from issues of “race” when they wrote about
whiteness, Veronica T. Watson instead identifies this body of literature
as an African American intellectual and
literary tradition that she names “the
literature of white estrangement.”
The first book to
In chapters that theorize white
examine whiteness as
double consciousness (W. E. B. Du Bois
and Charles Chesnutt), white womanan intellectual tradihood and class identity (Zora Neale
tion within African
Hurston and Frank Yerby), and the
American literature
socio-spatial subjectivity of southern
whites during the civil rights era (Melba
Patillo Beals), Watson explores the historically situated theories and analyses of whiteness provided by the
literature of white estrangement from the late nineteenth through the
mid-twentieth centuries. She argues that these texts are best understood as part of a multipronged approach by African American writers
to challenge and dismantle white supremacy in the United States and
demonstrates that these texts have an important place in the growing
field of critical whiteness studies.
Veronica T. Watson, Indiana, Pennsylvania, is an associate professor
of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is also the director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research. Her
essays have been published in Mississippi Quarterly and the Journal of
Ethnic American Literature, among others.
SEPTEMBER, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
NOVEMBER, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 6 b&w photographs, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
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PHOTOGRAPHY F AFRICAN STUDIES F FOLKLORE
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY F BLACK STUDIES F AFRICAN DIASPORA
I Am Because We Are
West African Drumming and
Dance in North American
Universities
African Wisdom in Image and Proverb
Betty Press
Proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller
I Am Because We Are features 125 black and white photographs by
Betty Press taken all over East and West Africa since 1987, combined
with related African proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania.
The book highlights the importance of proverbs in educating
members of African societies on how to think, how to behave, and
how to have a better life. Press
took these photographs with
the goal of making a significant
educational and artistic contribution to the appreciation and
understanding of African culture
and society as well as our own.
The photographs of daily
life deal with knowledge, cooperation, love, beauty, friendship,
hope, humor, sorrow, happiness,
Unforgettable photographs gratitude, dance, tradition, faith,
peace, war, death, and human
of daily African life
relationships. These are the same
accompanied by hard-won,
themes found in African proverbial language. Thus came the nattime-tested words
ural idea of coupling images with
proverbs. Together they offer a
powerful expression of African life and the universality of human emotions, ideas, and knowledge.
Betty Press, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is an adjunct professor of
photography at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has been
taking photographs in Africa since 1987 and lived in Kenya for eight
years. Her photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and
newspapers as well as in the book, The New Africa: Dispatches from a
Changing Continent. Annetta Miller has worked and lived in East
Africa for most of her life and has been collecting proverbs for more
than thirty years. She has published several daily calendars featuring
proverbs and a book titled Sharing Boundaries: Learning the Wisdom
of Africa.
AVAILABLE, 184 pages, 10 x 8 inches, 125 b&w photographs, foreword, introduction,
afterword, index
Printed casebinding $39.95T 978-0-9835454-4-6
Ebook available
Distributed title
An Ethnomusicological Perspective
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor
More than twenty universities and twenty other colleges in North
America (USA and Canada) offer performance courses on West African ethnic dance drumming. Since its inception in 1964 at both UCLA
and Columbia, West African drumming
and dance has gradually developed into
a vibrant campus subculture in North
America. The dances most practiced
in the American academy come from
the ethnic groups Ewe, Akan, Ga, Dagbamba, Mande, and Wolof, thereby
privileging dances mostly from Ghana,
Togo, Benin, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and
Burkina Faso. This strong presence and
practice of a world music ensemble in
the diaspora has captured and engaged
the interest of scholars, musicians, dancers, and audiences.
In the first-ever ethnographic study
of
West
African drumming and dance in
The first ethnomuNorth American universities the author
sicological study
documents and acknowledges ethnomusicologists, ensemble directors, students,
of the people who
administrators, and academic institucreated a transtions for their key roles in the histories
of their respective ensembles. Dor colnational connection
lates and shares perspectives including
in and through a
debates on pedagogical approaches that
may be instructive as models for both
world music culture
current and future ensemble directors
and reveals the multiple impacts that
participation in an ensemble or class offers students. He also examines
the interplay among historically situated structures and systems, discourse, and practice, and explores the multiple meanings that individuals and various groups of people construct from this campus activity.
The study will be of value to students, directors, and scholars as an ethnographic study and as a text for teaching relevant courses in African
music, African studies, ethnomusicology/world music, African diaspora studies, and other related disciplines.
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate professor of music and the McDonnell Barksdale Chair of Ethnomusicology at the University of Mississippi.
FEBRUARY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 60 b&w photographs (approx.),
appendices, glossary, bibliography, index
Ebook available
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AMERICAN STUDIES F POPULAR CULTURE
Now in
paperback
Africa in the
American Imagination
Popular Culture, Racialized
Identities, and African Visual Culture
Carol Magee
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes
fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African
Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel’s world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue, and Disney World, each of which
repackages African visual culture for
consumers. Because these cultural icons
permeate American life, they represent
the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study
integrates approaches from art history
and visual culture studies with those
from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange.
Two major threads weave throughout.
One analyzes how the presentation of
African visual culture in these popular
culture forms conceptualizes Africa for
the American public. The other investiA study of pop
gates the way the uses of African visual
culture’s representaculture focus America’s own self-awareness, particularly around black and
tion of a continent’s
white racialized identities.
visual traditions
In exploring the multiple meanings that “Africa” has in American
popular culture, Africa in the American
Imagination argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War,
civil rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid
and postapartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial
eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.
Carol Magee, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is assistant professor of
art history at University of North Carolina.
NOVEMBER, 272 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 16 b&w & 6 color photographs, bibliography,
index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-947-8
Ebook available
FOLKLORE F MULTICULTURAL STUDIES
F PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Now in
paperback
Creolization as
Cultural Creativity
Edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara
Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that
come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is
presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial Creole
societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian
Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere
cultures come into contact.
An extraordinary number of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern United States,
Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar,
Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion, Puerto
Rico, Argentina, Suriname, Jamaica,
and Sierra Leone are discussed in these
essays.
Essayists address theoretical dimensions of creolization and present
in-depth field studies. Topics include
adaptations of the Gombe drum over
the course of its migration from Jamaica to West Africa; uses of “ritual piracy”
involved in the appropriation of Catholic symbols by Puerto Rican brujos;
What happens when
the subversion of official culture and
authority through playful and comcultures meet and
bative use of “creole talk” in Argentine
new creative expresliterature and verbal arts; the mislabeling and trivialization (“toy blindness”)
sions emerge
of objects appropriated by African
Americans in the American South; the
strategic use of creole techniques among storytellers within the islands
of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized character of New Orleans and
its music. In the introductory essay the editors address both local and
universal dimensions of creolization and argue for the centrality of its
expressive manifestations for creolization scholarship.
Creolization as Cultural Creativity draws from the disciplines of
folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, history, and
material culture studies. Contributors include Roger D. Abrahams,
Robert Baron, Kenneth Bilby, Ana C. Cara, J. Michael Dash, Grey Gundaker, Lee Haring, Raquel Romberg, Nick Spitzer, and John F. Swzed.
Robert Baron, Brooklyn, New York, directs the folk arts program
of the New York State Council on the Arts. He is the coeditor, with
Nick Spitzer, of Public Folklore. Folklorist Ana C. Cara, Oberlin, Ohio,
is professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College. Her articles have
appeared in Journal of American Folklore, World Literature Today, and
Latin American Research Review.
OCTOBER, 366 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 28 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
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Art for the Middle Classes
America’s Illustrated
Magazines of the 1840s
Cynthia Lee Patterson
A history of the periodicals that brought
art and sophistication to a rising
bourgeoisie in the heartland
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-941-6
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Comics and the
U.S. South
Edited by Brannon Costello
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A wide-ranging survey of how comics
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The Glenbuchat Ballads
Edited by David Buchan
and James Moreira
A trove of previously unpublished
Scottish ballads
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-939-3
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Archeology of Mississippi
Calvin S. Brown
Introduction by Janet Ford
A classic study of the archeological sites
and artifacts of the prehistoric Indians
who inhabited the lands that are now
the state of Mississippi
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Losing Ground
Black Power, Yellow
Power, and the Making of
Revolutionary Identities
Rychetta Watkins
How the image of the militant guerilla
helped and hindered aims of African
American and Asian American power
movements
Curt Flood in the Media
Baseball, Race, and the
Demise of the Activist Athlete
Abraham Iqbal Khan
How the interplay of media, race,
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Identity and Land Loss
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David M. Burley
How residents of a changing
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with the Gulf ’s encroachment
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Birds and Birding on
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Judith A. Toups and
Jerome A. Jackson
With a foreword by
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Illustrations by
Dalton Shourds King
Patrick Chamoiseau
Faulkner and Whiteness
Black Rock
A Zuni Cultural Landscape
and the Meaning of Place
William A. Dodge
A thoughtful examination of how a shared
Edited by Jay Watson
An exploration of the Nobel
laureate’s work and its interrogations
of whiteness
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A Critical Introduction
Wendy Knepper
An opening into the life, novels,
fictions, and manifestos of a noted
Caribbean author
“The Mississippi Coast—among the
most fascinating of birding areas—is
now given the in-depth treatment for
which we have been waiting.”
—Roger Tory Peterson
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sense of place evolves over time
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The Courting of
Marcus Dupree
Legend of the Free
State of Jones
“A document of significance and
undeniable truth.”—The New York
The original, full account of a rebellion
Willie Morris
Times Book Review
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For Us, the Living
Myrlie Evers with William Peters
Introduction by Willie Morris
A memoir by an extraordinary woman
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her husband’s unrelenting devotion to the
quest for civil rights
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Rudy H. Leverett
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Cajun Country
Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay
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Building Louisiana
The Legacy of the Public
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Robert D. Leighninger Jr.
By far the broadest look at traditional
Cajun culture ever assembled
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A survey of New Deal projects
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Cajun Foodways
Mule Trader
Ray Lum’s Tales of Horses,
Mules, and Men
William R. Ferris
Foreword by Eudora Welty
“Story after wonderful story, tall tale
after tall tale. Ray Lum tells a southern
writer where he came from, and where
he ought to go.” —Shelby Foote
Paper $25.00R 978-1-57806-086-3
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Cajun and Creole Folktales
The French Oral Tradition
of South Louisiana
Collected and annotated
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A compendium that assembles and classifies
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culture of south Louisiana
C. Paige Gutierrez
An interpretation to the meaning
of traditional Cajun food from the
perspective of folklife studies and
cultural anthropology
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Paper $25.00R 978-0-87805-709-2
Lords of Misrule
Gardening Southern Style
Felder Rushing
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A Place Called
Mississippi
Collected Narratives
Edited by Marion Barnwell
An anthology of readings that
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of the Magnolia State
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Cajun and Zydeco Dance
Music in Northern California
Modern Pleasures in a
Postmodern World
Mark F. DeWitt
How Louisiana transplants and new
players have generated a thriving music
and dance scene far from the South
Paper $25.00R 978-1-61703-049-9
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Mardi Gras and the Politics
of Race in New Orleans
James Gill
The first book to explore the effects
of Mardi Gras on social and political
development in New Orleans and the
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racial segregation within the organizations that stage the annual festivities
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Thierry Groensteen
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Nick Nguyen
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The Superhero Reader
The System of Comics
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Loretta Young
Bernard F. Dick
The Complete Comic Strips
Compiled, translated, and
annotated by David Kunzle
Edited by Jeet Heer and Kent
Worcester
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Hollywood Madonna
Rodolphe Töpffer
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Grant Morrison
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Combining the Worlds of
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Marc Singer
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Looking Back Mississippi
Blues Traveling
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The Holy Sites of Delta Blues,
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Steve Cheseborough
The Mississippi Story
James Patterson Smith
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Towns and Places
Forrest Lamar Cooper
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Panther Tract
Wild Boar Hunting in
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Melody Golding
Introduction by Hank Burdine
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Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting
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Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
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Juke Joint
Photographs by Birney Imes
Introductory essay by
Richard Ford
Mississippi’s
American Indians
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The Last Resort
Taking the Mississippi Cure
Norma Watkins
Death in the Delta
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Uncovering a Mississippi
Family Secret
Molly Walling
Transformed
James F. Barnett Jr.
New Delta Rising
Photography by Magdalena Solé
Introduction by Rick Bragg
Text by Barry H. Smith and
Tom Lassitor
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A White Pastor’s Journey into
Civil Rights and Beyond
William G. McAtee
Foreword by William F. Winter
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Tupelo Man
The Life and Times of George
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Robert Blade
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Ghosts along the
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Alan Brown
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The Legs Murder
Scandal
Hunter Cole
Postscript by Elizabeth Spencer
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One Writer’s Garden
Eudora Welty’s Home Place
Susan Haltom and
Jane Roy Brown
Photographs by Langdon Clay
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We End in Joy
Memoirs of a First Daughter
Angela Fordice Jordan
Foreword by Marshall Ramsey
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