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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI Books for Spring–Summer 2010 Celebrating 40 Years Oraien Catledge: Photographs, Page 1 CONTENTS CALENDAR OF PUBLICATION DATES 20 African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago 7 American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium 4 Atom Egoyan: Interviews 25 Back in print 9 Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years 6 Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro 2 The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking 10 Conversations with Ian McEwan 10 Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa 21 Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South 19 Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast 3 Daniel Clowes: Conversations 17 Down on the Batture 3 Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic 14 Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater 18 Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection 24 Faulkner’s Sexualities 4 Guy Maddin: Interviews 5 Hal Ashby: Interviews 22 The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence 6 Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers 8 The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard’s Photography 18 Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 15 Legend of the Free State of Jones 16 Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana 12 Lost Churches of Mississippi 16 Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers 17 Missing New Orleans 13 Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front 8 MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream 2 My Life with Charlie Brown 11 My Two Oxfords 25 New in paperback 21 On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America 1 Oraien Catledge: Photographs 23 Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt 20 Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia 24 Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! 22 The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics 14 Tennessee Williams and the South 15 Treasured Past, Golden Future: The Centennial History of The University of Southern Mississippi 13 Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina 12 Weapons of Mississippi Available: Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection • Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture • Legend of the Free State of Jones • Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers • Missing New Orleans • My Two Oxfords • Tennessee Williams and the South March: Conversations with Ian McEwan • Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa • Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South • Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt • Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! • Treasured Past, Golden Future: The Centennial History of The University of Southern Mississippi April: The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking • Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater • Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers • Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front • My Life with Charlie Brown May: Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro • Down on the Batture • The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence • Lost Churches of Mississippi • MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream • Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia June: Atom Egoyan: Interviews • Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic • Faulkner’s Sexualities • The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard’s Photography • Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana • The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics July: African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago • American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium • Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast • On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America • Weapons of Mississippi August: Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years • Daniel Clowes: Conversations • Guy Maddin: Interviews • Hal Ashby: Interviews • Oraien Catledge: Photographs • Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina UNIVERSITY PRESS of MISSISSIPPI 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211-6492 www.upress.state.ms.us • E-mail: press@ihl.state.ms.us Administrative/Editorial/Marketing/Production: (601) 432-6205. 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Postmaster: University Press of Mississippi. Issue date: January 2010. Two times annually (January and June), plus supplements. Located at: University Press of Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211-6492. Promotional publications of the University Press of Mississippi are distributed free of charge to customers and prospective customers: Issue number: 1 Front cover Photograph—“Four Children at My Window,” courtesy Oraien Catledge Back cover Illustration—Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, © United Features Syndicate, Inc. PHOTOGRAPHY Oraien Catledge Photographs Oraien Catledge Edited by Constance Lewis and Richard Ford Introduction by Richard Ford The celebration of a life’s work in fine art photography Oraien Catledge, a Mississippian born in 1928, was entirely self-taught as a photographer and came to his vocation near the end of his career as an advocate for the blind. His black and white photographs—mostly portraits—take as their subjects the working poor. These are singularly arresting images—celebratory and inquiring of the human condition and tolerant without resort to staginess, sentimentality, or sociological intrusiveness. At heart, Catledge’s photographs strike a balance between documentary and artistic impulses. Catledge’s photographs happen to be “southern” in their locales and inhabitants, focused often on Atlanta’s Cabbagetown slum, and on Mississippi and Louisiana. But as with the best work of any artist, the photographs do not dote on the regional, reaffirm convention, or rest comfortably in known character types. His gritty, everyman subject matter and direct approach recall the work of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White, photographers who documented the people and hardships of the Great Depression across America. His memories of the hardscrabble Mississippi Delta, another distinctly southern area beset with poverty, furnished him with the understanding and sympathy to engage his subjects without exploitation or judgment. With the publication of Oraien Catledge: Photographs, he joins the ranks of great photographers with Mississippi roots, such as Eudora Welty, William Eggleston, and Birney Imes, who have made enduring contributions to the history of American photography. Oraien Catledge, Decatur, Georgia, published Cabbagetown in 1985. He was once a Southeast Regional Consultant for the American Foundation for the Blind. Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist. Constance Lewis, Atlanta, Georgia, founded Opal Gallery and has curated exhibitions in Paris, San Francisco, and Atlanta. R E L AT E D AUGUST, 120 pages (approx.), 11 x 12 inches, 70 b&w illustrations, Q&A with photographer, introduction Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-500-0 Photographs—Untitled by Oraien Catledge O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s Eudora Welty as Photographer Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney With contributions by Deborah Willis and Sandra S. Phillips Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-232-0 1 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i C O MI C S S T U DIES • a uto b i o g r a phy C O MI C S S T U DIES • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E My Life with Charlie Brown The Comics of Chris Ware Charles M. Schulz Edited and with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge Edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman Drawing Is a Way of Thinking Autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, James Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna David-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss, and Daniel Worden that tell the personal Peanuts Ball/kuhlMan tale of the creator the comics of chris ware Drawing is a way of thinking While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time. Schulz’s autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will serve as the touchstone for Schulz’s thoughts and convictions and as a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional, extended memoir. Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist’s entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist. An assessment of the achievement and aesthetic of one of America’s brightest comics innovators The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and The comics of chris Ware Drawing is a way of thinking emerging scholars about the comics Edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. kuhlman of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware’s work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware’s work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.” David M. Ball, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is assistant professor of English at Dickinson College. His essays have appeared in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and Critical Matrix. Martha B. Kuhlman, Providence, Rhode Island, is associate professor of comparative literature at Bryant University. She has published in the Journal of Popular Culture, European Journal of Comic Art, and the International Journal of Comic Art. Charles M. Schulz created the popular comic strip Peanuts, which appeared in over 2,600 newspapers and in over seventy-five countries. M. Thomas Inge, Ashland, Virginia, is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. He has edited or authored over sixty volumes, including books on Schulz, the comics, William Faulkner, and Oliver W. Harrington. Inge is the general editor of two UPM series, Conversations with Comics Artists and Great Comics Artists. APRIL, 288 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 20 color illustrations, 30 b&w illustrations, introduction, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $55.00S, 978-1-60473-442-3 Paper $28.00T, 978-1-60473-443-0 Ebook $28.00, 978-1-60473-446-1 APRIL, 144 pages (approx.), 5½ x 8½ inches, 25 b&w illustrations, introduction, appendix Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-447-8 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-448-5 R E L AT E D Charles M. Schulz Conversations Edited by M. Thomas Inge Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-305-5 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 2 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e C O MI C S S T U DIES • E U R O P EAN H IS T O R Y C O MI C S S T U DIES • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E Drawing France Daniel Clowes Joel E. Vessels Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates French Comics and the Republic A Conversations sophisticated Daniel Clowes Interviews account of the evolving role of comics in recent French Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates history “If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you’re doing and why, there In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips—called bande dessinée or “BD” in French— have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among Frenchspeaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and critical study decades before the academy and the press in the United States embraced comics. The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has traveled. In Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, author Joel E. Vessels examines the trek of BD from its being considered a fomenter of rebellion, to a medium suitable only for semi-literates, to an impediment to education, and most recently to an art capable of addressing social concerns in mainstream culture. In the mid-1800s, alarmists feared political caricatures might incite the ire of an illiterate working class. To counter this notion, proponents yoked the art to a particular articulation of “Frenchness” based on literacy and reason. With the post–World War II economic upswing, French consumers saw BD as a way to navigate the changes brought by modernization. After bande dessinée came to be understood as a compass for the masses, the government, especially François Mitterand’s administration, brought comics increasingly into “official” culture. Vessels argues that BD are central to the formation of France’s self-image and a self-awareness of what it means to be French. would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda.” Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) emerged from the “alternative comics” boom of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive voices in the development of the graphic novel. His serialized Eightball comics, collected in such books as David Boring, Ice Haven, and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, helped to set the standards of sophistication and complexity for the medium. The screenplay for Ghost World, which Clowes co-adapted (with Terry Zwigoff) from his graphic novel of the same name, was nominated for an Academy Award. Since his early, edgy Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, Clowes has developed along with the medium, from a satirical and sometimes vituperative surrealist to an unmatched observer of psychological and social subtleties. In this collection of interviews reaching from 1988 to 2009, the cartoonist discusses his earliest experiences reading superhero comics, his time at the Pratt Institute, his groundbreaking comics career, and his screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential. Several of these pieces are drawn from rare small-press or self-published zines, including Clowes’s first published interview. He talks at length about the creative process, from the earliest traces of a story, to his technical approaches to layout, drawing, inking, lettering, and coloring. The volume concludes with a 2009 interview conducted specifically for this book. Joel E. Vessels, Astoria, New York, is instructor of history at Nassau Community College. His work has appeared in International Journal of Comic Art and Contemporary French Civilization. An assistant professor of English at East Carolina University, Ken Parille, Greenville, North Carolina, is the author of Boys at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and ‘The Boy-Problem’ in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. A lecturer in English at the University of Vermont, Isaac Cates, Burlington, Vermont, has published in Indy Magazine, International Journal of Comics Art, ImageText, and many other periodicals. JUNE, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 29 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-444-7 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-445-4 R E L AT E D History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels AUGUST, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 18 b&w illustrations, introduction, chronology, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-440-9 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-441-6 Conversations with Comics Artists Series Edited by Mark McKinney Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-004-3 ¡Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization Bruce Campbell al s o i n t h e s er i e s Paper $25.00S, 978-1-60473-126-2 Harvey Pekar Conversations Edited by Michael G. Rhode Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-086-9 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 3 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i FILM • BI O G R A P H Y FILM • BI O G R A P H Y Atom Egoyan Guy Maddin Edited by T. J. Morris Edited by D. K. Holm Interviews Interviews “We make art to provide order and purpose in a world in which we feel deprived of that in some way.” Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. His first love was playwriting, but he began to see that he could investigate themes emotionally through film— that the camera could play a role. He learned his craft in his own independent films and by directing television episodes before attempting his first feature film, Next of Kin (1984). There he explored the themes of family and identity that continue to interest him today. A frequent winner at film festivals, Egoyan broke through to a general audience with his film Exotica (1994). Since then such films as The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Felicia’s Journey (1999) have gained him wide acclaim. These interviews, collected from the last two decades, reveal Egoyan’s unique themes, and his individual, independent approach to filmmaking. He discusses his development as a director, his interest in opera and museum installations, and the expectations he has for his audience. He engages in open, forthright discussions of his work and those who have worked with him. T. J. Morris, Indianapolis, Indiana, is professor of English at the University of Indianapolis and has published in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Mystics Quarterly, and Independent Film and Video Monthly. JUNE, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-486-7 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-487-4 Conversations with Filmmakers Series A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Jim Jarmusch Interviews One of Canada’s premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographical tales—hidden deeply within comical, absurd, and surrealistic narratives—Maddin has earned international acclaim, including a lifetime achievement award at the Telluride Film Festival at the age of thirty-nine. Possessing a deep knowledge of silent cinema, modernist artists, and novelists, Maddin’s seemingly amateurish visual style and unusual subjects (patriphagia in The Dead Father, incest in Careful) obscure the surprisingly literate sources for his films. These include novelists Knut Hamsun (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) and Kazuo Ishiguro (The Saddest Music in the World), the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary), and the films of Erich von Stroheim (Archangel). Guy Maddin: Interviews collects pieces published between 1990 and 2009 and offers the reader a whirlwind tour of Maddin’s offbeat career in his own words, as solicited by a range of journalists, scholars, and fellow filmmakers. Maddin is a charming, erudite, and candid conversationalist who is frank about his own perceived drawbacks, his good fortune, and the often high art culture that motivates his cinematic explorations. D. K. Holm, Portland, Oregon, is a movie reviewer for the Vancouver Voice. He has published books on Quentin Tarrantino and R. Crumb. He has also written articles for the New York Times Book Review, Film Quarterly, and Sight and Sound. He is the editor of R.Crumb: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi). AUGUST, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-562-8 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-563-5 Conversations with Filmmakers Series Edited by Ludvig Hertzberg Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-379-6 Lars von Trier Interviews Edited by Jan Lumholdt A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-532-5 Peter Greenaway Interviews Edited by Vernon Gras and Marguerite Gras Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-255-3 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 4 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e FILM • BI O G R A P H Y Hal Ashby Interviews Edited by Nick Dawson “I believe one of the best things a director can do for his film is to get as many others as possible to become part of the film.” “All the elements have to evolve simultaneously. You have to make a film that has just the right number of flippers and fins and gills to survive.” For a complete listing of our Conversations with Filmmakers Series, see page 30 or http://www.upress.state.ms.us/ search/series/6 Hal Ashby (1929–1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era. From the cult classic Harold and Maude (1971) to the iconic political satire Being There (1979), from the subversive sex comedy Shampoo (1975) to the anti-Vietnam romance Coming Home (1979), Ashby rejected mainstream conventions while his films attracted both popular and critical praise. A true actors’ director, Ashby drew A-list stars and elicited powerful performances from Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973), Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in Shampoo, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda in Coming Home, and Peter Sellers in Being There. Hal Ashby: Interviews for the first time brings together the best interviews conducted over the course of Ashby’s career. Ashby discusses his filmmaking philosophy, memories of working his way up the Hollywood ladder in the 1950s, and his troubled productions in the 1980s. Nick Dawson, Brooklyn, New York, is a contributing editor for Filmmaker magazine. He is also the associate editor for the FilminFocus website, a freelance film journalist, and author of Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, the first biography of the director. AUGUST, 128 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-564-2 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-565-9 Conversations with Filmmakers Series A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Robert Altman Interviews Edited by David Sterritt Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-187-7 Martin Scorsese Interviews Edited by Peter Brunette Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-072-6 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 5 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i P O P U LA R C U L T U R E • FILM S T U DIES • R EFE R EN C E FILM • BI O G R A P H Y Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine Beyond Paradise The Life of Ramon Novarro A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers Anthony Slide “For anyone who equates ‘fan magazines’ with supermarket tabloids, this book should come as a revelation. Tony Slide has done a formidable job of research to chart the birth, rise, and fall of Hollywood fan magazines in the twentieth century, their relationship to the industry they covered, and the readers they served. It’s a colorful, well-told history that’s full of surprises.” —Leonard Maltin The definitive source for the movie fan magazine and how it espoused hoopla and fashioned stardom The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture. Anthony Slide’s Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. Slide discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique, sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style. This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and includes detailed publication histories. Anthony Slide, Studio City, California, is an independent scholar who has published more than seventy-two books on popular entertainment. He has been a specialist appraiser of entertainment memorabilia for more than thirty years, an associate archivist for the American Film Institute, and the resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. André Soares Foreword by Anthony Slide The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood’s top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM’s biggest box office attractions, starring in now-classic films, including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the original version of Ben-Hur. He shared the screen with the era’s top leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, and became Rudolph Valentino’s main rival in the “Latin Lover” category. Yet, despite his considerable professional accomplishments, Novarro’s enduring hold on fame stems from his tragic death—his bloodied corpse was found in his house on Halloween 1968 in what has become one of Hollywood’s most infamous scandals. A lifelong bachelor, Novarro carefully cultivated his image as a man deeply devoted to his family and to Catholicism. His murder shattered that persona. News reports revealed that the dashing screen hero had not only been gay, but was dead at the hands of two young male hustlers. Since then, details of his murder have achieved near mythic proportions, obscuring Novarro’s professional legacy. Beyond Paradise presents a full picture of the man who made motion picture history. Including original interviews with Novarro’s surviving friends, family, co-workers, and the two men convicted of his murder, this biography provides unique insights into an early Hollywood star—a man whose heart was forever in conflict with his image and whose myth continues to fascinate today. André Soares, Los Angeles, California, currently operates a translation business, working for numerous major American corporations. He is the author of several screenplays and is the chief editor of Alternative Film Guide. APRIL, 288 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 75 b&w illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-413-3 Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-414-0 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 6 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e FILM • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E American Horror Film The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium Edited by Steffen Hantke Essays by Craig Bernardini, David Church, Pamela Craig, Blair Davis, Martin Fradley, Steffen Hantke, Reynold Humphries, James Kendrick, Christina Klein, Ben Kooyman, Jay McRoy, Kial Natale, Andrew Patrick Nelson, Tony Perrello, and Philip L. Simpson Essays that assault the conviction that horror film is a genre on its deathbed A biography of the religious and deeply closeted rival to Rudolph Valentino MAY, 416 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 27 b&w illustrations, foreword, filmography, chronology, index Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-457-7 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-458-4 Hollywood Legends Series al s o i n t h e s er i e s Forever Mame The Life of Rosalind Russell Bernard F. Dick Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-890-6 Van Johnson MGM’s Golden Boy Ronald L. Davis Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-377-2 Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self—or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Individual essays profile the work of up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone’s muchmaligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President George W. Bush’s administration. Other essays look at the economic, social, and formal aspects of the genre; the globalization of the U.S. film industry; the alleged escalation of cinematic violence; and the massive commercial popularity of the remake. Some essays examine specific subgenres—from the teenage horror flick to the serial killer film and the spiritual horror film—as well as the continuing relevance of classic directors such as George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, John Landis, and Stuart Gordon. Essays deliberate on the marketing of nostalgia and its concomitant aesthetic, and the curiously schizophrenic perspective of fans who happen to be scholars as well. Taken together, the contributors to this collection make a compelling case that American horror cinema is as vital, creative, and thought-provoking as it ever was. Steffen Hantke, Seoul, South Korea, is associate professor of English at Sogang University in South Korea. He has published Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Literature: The Works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy, has edited several anthologies, and has had work published in several journals. JULY, 275 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, bibliography, index Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-453-9 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-454-6 Photograph—Movie still from The Hills Have Eyes, courtesy Steffen Hantke R E L AT E D Horror Film Creating and Marketing Fear Edited by Steffen Hantke Paper, $25.00D, 978-1-60473-376-1 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 7 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i M U SI C M U SI C • MEDIA S T U DIES MuzikMafia The Jazz Image From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream David B. Pruett Seeing Music through Herman Leonard’s Photography K. Heather Pinson In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of How a group of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennes- industry outsiders see. “We had all been beat up pretty good by the became popular ‘industry’ and we told ourselves, if nothing else, we might as well be playing muzik,” explains music sensations Big Kenny of Big and Rich. For the next year and a half, the MuzikMafia performed each week and garnered an ever-growing, dedicated fan base. Five years, several national tours, six Grammy nominations, and eleven million sold albums later, the MuzikMafia now includes a family of artists including founding members Big and Rich, Jon Nicholson, and Cory Gierman along with Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, Damien Horne (Mista D), Two-Foot Fred, Rachel Kice, and several more in development. This book explores how a set of shared beliefs created a bond that transformed the MuzikMafia into a popular music phenomenon. David B. Pruett examines the artists’ coalition from the inside perspective he gained in five years of working with them. Looking at all aspects of the collective, MuzikMafia documents the problems encountered along the ascent, including business difficulties, tensions among members, disagreements with record labels, and miscalculations artists inevitably made before the MuzikMafia unofficially dissolved in 2008. A final section examines hope for the future: the birth of Mafia Nation in 2009. David B. Pruett, Weymouth, Massachusetts, is an assistant professor of music at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. A native of North Carolina, he has been published in the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, and the Country Music Annual. MAY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 28 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, discography, videography, index Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-438-6 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-439-3 American Made Music Series Photograph—The “godfathers”: Kenny Alphin, Jon Nicholson, Cory Gierman, and John Rich, courtesy Deanna Kay U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 8 Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That’s the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded. Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal role played by Herman Leonard (b. 1923). Leonard’s photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music’s neoclassical sound today. To discover how the image of the musician affected mainstream jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and oral narratives. K. Heather Pinson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is assistant professor of communication and media arts at Robert Morris University. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of African American Music, Encyclopedia of the Blues, and Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture. JUNE, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 26 b&w illustrations, bibliography, appendices, index Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-494-2 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-495-9 American Made Music Series Illustration—courtesy www.istockphoto.com Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e M U SI C • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES Banjo on the Mountain Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years Dick Spottswood Essay by Stephen Wade The tribute to a musician whose career spans hillbilly, bluegrass, and sacred music How photographer Herman Leonard and others created the icon of the sophisticated, edgy jazz musician A L SO IN T H E S E R I E S Jazz and Death Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats Frederick J. Spencer, M.D. Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-453-3 A Trumpet around the Corner The Story of New Orleans Jazz Samuel Charters Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-898-2 Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898–1971), in Mainer’s Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton mills in 1934. At the time, country styles were swiftly evolving from community-based performance into mass-market broadcast via radio, records, and the silver screen. Mainer’s Mountaineers attracted radio sponsors and touring opportunities, allowing the brothers to become full-time musicians. Eventually Wade Mainer formed his own band, the Sons of the Mountaineers. His success secured a permanent place for the fiddle and banjo sound in country music, sustained that sound’s popularity throughout the 1930s, and created the foundation upon which Bill Monroe and his disciples would spread bluegrass music in the 1940s. Banjo on the Mountain features Wade’s own words and recollections from a lifetime in music and an exciting career that included a command performance at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a key role in The Old Chisholm Trail, a 1944 BBC-sponsored radio play for American troops and embattled English civilians. The volume is rich in photographs and documents, thanks to Wade and Julia Mainer’s careful custodianship of letters, professional photos and family snapshots, posters, songbooks, flyers, and other priceless curios. Dick Spottswood, Naples, Florida, is a musicologist, historian, and the producer and on-line host of The Dick Spottswood Show, aka the Obsolete Music Hour. AUGUST,128 pages (approx.), 8½ x 11 inches, 100 b&w illustrations, discography, index Printed casebinding $55.00S, 978-1-60473-577-2 Paper $30.00T, 978-1-60473-498-0 Ebook $30.00, 978-1-60473-499-7 American Made Music Series Photograph—Wade Mainer, courtesy of Wade Mainer al s o i n t h e s er i e s Hank Williams, So Lonesome Bill Koon Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-283-6 In Close Harmony The Story of the Louvin Brothers Charles Wolfe Paper $25.00D, 978-0-87805-892-1 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 9 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E • BI O G R A P H Y LI T E R A T U R E • BI O G R A P H Y Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa Conversations with Ian McEwan Edited by Shirley A. James Hanshaw Edited by Ryan Roberts “A poem seems to be more embracing when it avoids becoming an answer, and, instead, poses an active question.” Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America’s most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) describes his work alternately as “word paintings” and as “music,” and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa’s literary output. His collaborations with artists in a variety of genres, including music, dance, drama, opera, and painting have produced groundbreaking performance pieces. Throughout the collection, Komunyakaa’s interest in finding and creating poetry across the artistic spectrum is made manifest. For his collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, 1977–1989, Komunyakaa became the first African American male to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Through his work he provides keen insight into life’s mysteries from seemingly inconsequential and insignificant life forms (“Ode to the Maggot”) to some of the most compelling historical and life-altering events of our time, such as the Vietnam War (“Facing It”). Influenced strongly by jazz, blues, and folklore, as well as the classical poetic tradition, his poetry comprises a riveting chronicle of the African American experience. Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Starkville, Mississippi, is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her work has been published in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Other Arts, as well as The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Studies and Journal of the African Literature Association. Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society. McEwan’s candid and forthcoming discussions with notable contemporary writers—Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Ian Hamilton, David Remnick, and Stephen Pinker—provide readers with the most in-depth portrait available of the author and his works. Readers will find McEwan to be just as engaging, humorous, and intelligent as his writings suggest. The volume includes interviews from British, Spanish, French, and American sources, two interviews previously available only in audio format, and a new interview conducted with the book’s editor. Ryan Roberts, Springfield, Illinois, is a librarian at Lincoln Land Community College and an editorial assistant for Between the Lines. He is the official webmaster for Julian Barnes (www.julianbarnes .com), Ian McEwan (www.ianmcewan.com), and James Fenton (www.jamesfenton.com), among others. MARCH, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-419-5 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-420-1 Literary Conversations Series MARCH, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-421-8 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-422-5 Literary Conversations Series A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Conversations with Audre Lorde Edited by Joan Wylie Hall Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-643-8 Conversations with Rita Dove Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-550-9 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 10 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e LI T E R A T U R E My Two Oxfords Willie Morris Foreword by JoAnne Prichard Morris Photograph by David Rae Morris “I think it is at the level of empathy that moral questions begin in fiction.” A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Conversations with Julian Barnes Edited by Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-204-7 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-62-1 One of America’s most beloved authors A special edition and a master of the personal essay, Willie Morris (1934–1999) wrote nineteen books honoring an adored and hundreds of articles and reflections. To Mississippi writer honor his memory on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth (November 29, 1934), on the 75th anniMy Two Oxfords is a special edition of one of versary of his birth these choice essays. In this piece, he addresses the quirky circumstance of having lived in “two of the world’s most disparate places.” There were two Oxfords in his life—Oxford University in England where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1950s and Oxford, Mississippi, the home of University of Mississippi, where he was writer in residence when he wrote the essay. Among the obvious contrasts between the two places, Morris finds complexity: “The legendary beauty of the Ole Miss coed is not myth. The girls of Oxford, England, so stringently screened by some of the world’s most demanding academic requirements, were often dour; yet the occasional warm-spirited beauty among them was always worth the waiting . . . By the same token, the intellectual Ole Miss sorority girl of good and gentle disposition is a joyous song in the heart and will endure.” This essay is quintessential Morris—lyrical and evocative, a blend of personal experience and memory, history, a strong sense of place, and a bit of whimsy. A foreword by JoAnne Prichard Morris and a photograph by David Rae Morris make this edition a must-have for Willie Morris’s many fans. A native Mississippian, Willie Morris came to national prominence in the early 1960s as the youngest-ever editor of Harper’s magazine. His first book, North Toward Home, became an instant classic. Among his other notable books are The Courting of Marcus Dupree, New York Days, My Dog Skip, Homecomings, and My Mississippi. AVAILABLE, 32 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 1 b&w photograph Cloth $20.00T, 978-1-60473-570-3 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 11 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i H IS T O R Y • A R C H I T E C T U R E • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES H IS T O R Y • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES Lost Churches of Mississippi Weapons of Mississippi Kevin Dougherty Richard J. Cawthon A A richly illustrated history of more than history of weaponry used to defend, attack, one hundred sacred suppress, and stalk structures lost to disaster, demolition, over the centuries or abandonment Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to levy societal control. In Weapons of Mississippi, Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only offers technical background for these devices, but he also presents a new way of understanding the state’s history—through the context and development of its weapons. Chapters in the book bring the story of Mississippi’s weapons up to date with a discussion of the modern naval shipbuilders on the Coast and interviews with hunters keen to pass on family traditions. As Mississippi progressed from a sparsely populated wilderness to a structured modern society, management of weaponry became one of the main requirements for establishing centralized law and order. Indians, outlaws, runaway slaves, secessionists, and night riders have all posed challenges to the often better-armed authorities. Today, weapons unite Mississippians in the popular pastime of hunting deer, turkey, dove, rabbit, and even bear. In the state’s social and cultural character, a shared lore and knowledge of hunting crosses age, racial, and economic lines. Weapons, once used for mere survival, have transformed into instruments masterfully crafted for those harvesting the state’s abundant game. Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, these places of worship were often among the most visually prominent and architecturally striking buildings in Mississippi. Storms, floods, tornadoes, flames, bulldozers, or the disbandment of congregations razed what once was hallowed. In Lost Churches of Mississippi, architectural historian Richard J. Cawthon reclaims such noteworthy temples as the old St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Vicksburg, Bethel Presbyterian Church near Columbus, the old Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, and the old First Presbyterian Church in Yazoo City. Selections represent over fifty towns and cities throughout the state and are captured in 180 distinctive black-and-white illustrations from several historical archives and other collections. Cawthon discusses the architectural features and historical background of each house of worship and provides a brief introduction that illuminates the study of lost buildings, as well as a glossary of architectural terms and an annotated bibliography. Lost Churches of Mississippi rescues a cardinal legacy and recognizes a portion of the state’s rich architectural and religious heritage. Richard J. Cawthon, Jackson, Mississippi, former chief architectural historian with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, is currently a historic preservation specialist for FEMA’s Mississippi Recovery Office and works on the state’s Gulf Coast. He wrote the text for Victorian Houses of Mississippi and Historic Churches of Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi). Kevin Dougherty, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is a history professor at University of Southern Mississippi and has previously published a number of books in military history. MAY, 240 pages (approx.), 8 x 10 inches, 180 b&w illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-436-2 Ebook $35.00, 978-1-60473-437-9 JULY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 44 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-451-5 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-452-2 R E L AT E D R E L AT E D Lost Landmarks of Mississippi Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-475-5 Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-968-2 Kevin Dougherty Mary Carol Miller Lost Mansions of Mississippi Mary Carol Miller Cloth $37.00T, 978-0-87805-888-4 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 12 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • MEM O I R • DISAS T E R S C IVIL WA R • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • H IS T O R Y Under Surge, Under Siege Mississippi in the Civil War Ellis Anderson Timothy B. Smith The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina A The Home Front survivor’s tale A of the hurricane’s full examination of a population’s destruction and a passion and defeat community’s enduring In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi’s Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. The invading Union army dismantled the state’s political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting capability. The state saw extensive military operations, destruction, and bloodshed within her borders. One of the most frightful and extended sieges of the war ended in a crucial Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, the capstone to a tremendous Union campaign. As Confederate forces and Mississippi became overwhelmed militarily, the populace’s morale began to crumble. Realizing that the enemy could roll unchecked over the state, civilians, Smith argues, began to lose the will to continue the struggle. Many white Confederates chose to return to the Union rather than see continued destruction in the name of a victory that seemed ever more improbable. When the tide turned, Unionists and African Americans boldly stepped up their endeavors. The result, Smith finds, was a state vanquished and destined to endure suffering far into its future. The first examination of the state’s Civil War home front in seventy years, this book tells the story of all classes of Mississippians during the war, focusing new light on previously neglected groups such as women and African Americans. The result is a revelation of the heart of a populace facing the devastating impact of total war. determination Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal views; its laid-back, artsy downtown; and its deep-dyed southern cordiality. The tragedy also revealed the inner workings of a community with an indomitable heart and profound neighborly bonds. Those connections often brought out the best in people under the worst of circumstances. In Under Surge, Under Siege, Ellis Anderson, who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis home and sheltered many neighbors afterwards, offers stories of generosity, heroism, and laughter in the midst of terror and desperate uncertainty. Divided into two parts, this book invites readers into the intimate enclave before, during, and after the storm. “Under Surge” focuses on connections between residents, then demonstrates how those bonds sustained them through the worst hurricane in U.S. history. “Under Siege” documents the first three years of the grinding aftermath, detailing the unforeseen burdens of stress and depression, insurance scandals, and opportunists that threatened to complete the annihilation of the plucky town. A blend of memoir, personal diary, and firsthand reportage, Under Surge, Under Siege creates a compelling American testament to the strength of the human spirit. Timothy B. Smith, Adamsville, Tennessee, teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of several books, including The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield and Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. Ellis Anderson, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, received a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Fellowship for portions of this book. An excerpt appeared in Southern Cultures. APRIL, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography, index Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-429-4 Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-430-0 Heritage of Mississippi Series AUGUST, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-502-4 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-503-1 R E L AT E D Katrina Mississippi Women Remember A l s o i n t h e Ser i e s Photography by Melody Golding Edited by Sally Pfister Patti Carr Black Art in Mississippi, 1720—1980 Cloth $60.00T, 978-1-57806-084-9 Cloth $32.00T, 978-1-57806-956-9 A Season of Night Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917 New Orleans Life after Katrina Stephen Cresswell Ian McNulty Cloth $45.00S, 978-1-57806-847-0 Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-934110-91-1 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 13 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i BI O G R A P H Y • AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E A R T • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES Tennessee Williams and the South Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi New in paperback Love and Art at Shearwater Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt Christopher Maurer with Maria Estrella Iglesias Words and The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family’s pictures that show the South’s imprint on the life and artful enterprise works of the great playwright “An involving, often moving narrative.” —Booklist Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) remarked on several occasions that the farther south one went in America, the more congenial life became. Though he sojourned elsewhere, he embraced the South, the region of his birth, as his creative homeland. Few writers have been more closely connected with it than he. Combining his words with photographs, this biographical album reveals Williams’s closeness with the American South, and especially with his beloved New Orleans. Williams was born in Mississippi and lived there with his family until he was seven. Thomas Lanier Williams, who became “Tennessee,” absorbed much of his creative material from this Mississippi home place. Many of his ancestors were distinguished Tennesseans, a fact in which he took considerable pride. Although he grew to maturity in St. Louis, it was to the South that he continually returned in his memory and in his imagination. It was in New Orleans and Key West that he chose to spend a large part of his later years. This book underscores that intimate connection by featuring photographs of people and places that influenced him. Enhanced with a long essay and captioned with quotations from Williams’s plays, memoirs, and letters, more than one hundred pictures document the keen sense of place that he felt throughout his life and career. Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband—a grain merchant—she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South. Backed by his mother’s passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning “to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection,” he drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, “Mac” and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left the pottery studio to search for his own artistic path. Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling—much of it by strong, unforgettable women—are still an essential part of the family’s daily life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy, passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and compassionately written, Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi gathers one family’s eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty, the healing power of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual treasures given us by the natural world. Kenneth Holditch, New Orleans, Louisiana, is professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, the editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the coeditor (with Mel Gussow) of the Library of America edition of Williams’s works. Richard Freeman Leavitt (1929–2003) was the editor and compiler of The World of Tennessee Williams and the compiler of the photographs and the genealogical chart for Lyle Leverich’s Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. Christopher Maurer, Boston, Massachusetts, professor of Spanish and chair of Romance Studies at Boston University, is the author of eight books, including the award-winning Fortune’s Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson. Maria Estrella Iglesias, Boston, has taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois–Chicago. Her collection of American art pottery was featured on Home and Garden TV and her jewelry on Sundays with Liz Walker (Boston CBS4) and Chronicle. AVAILABLE, 128 pages, 8 x 8½ inches, 125 b&w illustrations Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-465-2 Ebook $22.00, 978-1-60473-466-9 R E L AT E D APRIL, 358 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w illustrations Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-459-1 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-460-7 Photograph—Peter Anderson, courtesy Marjorie Ashley Anderson/The Anderson Family Conversations with Tennessee Williams Edited by Albert J. Devlin Paper $22.00T, 978-0-87805-263-9 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 14 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e C IVIL WA R • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES MISSISSI P P I • H IG H E R ED U C A T I O N Legend of the Free State of Jones Treasured Past, Golden Future BACK IN PRINT The Centennial History of The University of Southern Mississippi Rudy H. Leverett The Chester M. Morgan Foreword by Martha Dunagin Saunders original, full accounting of a Originally established March 30, A celebration 1910, as Mississippi Normal College, The University of Southern of a Deep South Mississippi was built on 120 acres institution that of cutover timber land and created to provide training for public school has prospered and teachers. Chester M. Morgan outlines grown the evolution of the institution and tells the story of a gracious heritage born of adversity and nurtured by a century of perseverance and determination. From the success of its graduates and the passion of its faculty to its ability to meet and conquer challenges brought by scarce state funding, world wars, social movements, and natural disasters, the author captures the persistent spirit and strength that is the unchanging force behind the university’s success. Following the institution’s transition from Mississippi Normal College (1912–1924), to State Teachers College (1924–1940), to Mississippi Southern College (1940–1962), to its current designation as The University of Southern Mississippi (1962–present), the story captures every element and facet of campus life. From academics and arts to athletics and administration, the author presents a rich and varied look at how Southern Miss became the modern comprehensive university it is today. rebellion in the heart of Dixie A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the Old South? A notorious county that seceded from the Confederacy? This is how Jones County, Mississippi, is known in myth and legend. Since 1864 the legend has persisted. Differing versions give the name of this new nation as Republic of Jones, Jones County Confederacy, and Free State of Jones. Over the years this story has captured the imaginations of journalists, historians, essayists, novelists, short story writers, and Hollywood filmmakers, although serious scholars long ago questioned the accuracy of local history accounts about a secessionist county led by Newt Knight and a band of renegades. Legend of the Free State of Jones was the first authoritative explanation of just what did happen in Jones County in 1864 to give rise to the legend. This book surveys the facts, the records, and the history of the “Free State of Jones” and well may provide the whole story. Rudy H. Leverett was born in an unplumbed cabin in the woods outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had a doctoral degree in education and spent his life writing extensively on the subjects of philosophy, the American South, and the McLemore family. He died on his birthday in 1999. Chester M. Morgan, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is University Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal; Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured: The University of Southern Mississippi, 1912–1987 (University Press of Mississippi); and A Priceless Heritage: A History of the Mississippi Power Company (with Donald Dana). AVAILABLE,143 pages, 5½ x 8½ inches, 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-571-0 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-572-7 MARCH, 288 pages (approx.), 12 x 9 inches, 200 color and b&w illustrations (approx.), foreword, index Cloth $50.00R, 978-1-60473-463-8 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-464-5 Copublished with The University of Southern Mississippi B a c k i n p r i n t o r n e w i n p a p erba c k Mule Trader Ray Lum’s Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men William R. Ferris Paper $25.00R, 978-1-57806-086-3 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-555-0 R elated Rock Solid Southern Miss Football Natchez before 1830 Edited by Noel Polk John W. Cox and Gregg Bennett Foreword by Brett Favre Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-535-2 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-536-9 Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-709-1 The Peninsula Campaign of 1862 A Military Analysis Kevin Dougherty with J. Michael Moore Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-512-3 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-061-6 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 15 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • P O LI T I C S • L O U ISIANA L O U ISIANA • ENVI R O NMEN T • S O C I O L O G Y Louisiana Governors Losing Ground Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers New in paperback Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire Louisiana Governors rulers, rascals, and reformers A David M. Burley Foreword by Sara Crosby Afterword by T. Mayheart Dardar revelation of the wild, wily, and How well-meaning chief residents of a changing coast- executives of a line reconcile sense colorful state of place with the Gulf’s Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene, trace the history of the state’s leaders from the French Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire and Spanish colonial eras to the present day. Using a variety of sources, including personal interviews with the recent governors, they describe unforgettable personalities in Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, now available in paperback. Such early figures as Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville set the tone for later colonial governors. They had their troubles, fending off protesting Indians and other French and Spanish leaders vying for power. Following the Louisiana Purchase, American politics took hold. The Whigs, Know Nothings, Republicans, and Democrats have all waxed and waned through times of slavery, secession, suffrage, and segregation. The early twentieth century saw the rise of Huey P. Long, who established himself as a virtual dictator. An assassin’s bullet ended Long’s life in 1935, but his followers managed to hold on to the governorship until 1940. In 1948 his brother, Earl Long, brought the family back into power. Over the years, two governors were impeached but were not removed from office, and two governors were jailed in federal prison. The experiences, decisions, and conflicts of Louisiana governors have reflected and influenced the history of the state, often in dramatic and fascinating ways. encroachment What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant loss of coastal land now estimated to occur at a rate of at least twenty-four square miles per year. In Losing Ground, coastal Louisianans communicate the significance of place and environment. During interviews taken just before the 2005 hurricanes, they send out a plea to alleviate the damage. They speak with an urgency that exemplifies a fear of losing not just property and familiar surroundings, but their identity as well. People along Louisiana’s southeastern coast hold a deep attachment to place, and this shows in the urgency of the narratives David M. Burley collects here. The meanings that residents attribute to coastal land loss reflect a tenuous and uprooted sense of self. The process of coastal land loss and all of its social components, from the familial to the political, impacts these residents’ concepts of history and the future. Burley updates many of his subjects’ narratives to reveal what has happened in the wake of the back-to-back disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In forty years of journalism, Walter Greaves Cowan, New Orleans, Louisiana, was reporter and editor of the New Orleans States-Item and also vice-president of the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation. He is the coauthor of New Orleans Yesterday and Today and Louisiana Yesterday and Today. Jack B. McGuire, Mandeville, Louisiana, public relations director for the city of New Orleans from 1964 to 1970, is vice president of Union Savings and Loan Association. He is the author of Uncle Earl Deserved Better. David M. Burley, Hammond, Louisiana, is an assistant professor of sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University. His work has been published in Organization and Environment, Contexts, and Humanity and Society. JUNE, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 11 b&w illustrations, 1 map, foreword, aferword, appendix, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $40.00S, 978-1-60473-488-1 Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-489-8 R E L AT E D AVAILABLE, 328 pages, 61/8 x 9¼ inches, 43 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-501-7 Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands Bill Streever R E L AT E D Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-348-2 Leander Perez Boss of the Delta The Lakes of Pontchartrain Their History and Environments Glen Jeansonne Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-917-0 Robert W. Hastings Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-271-9 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 16 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e L O U ISIANA • NA T U R AL H IS T O R Y • A U T O BI O G R A P H Y L O U ISIANA • H IS T O R Y • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES Down on the Batture Missing New Orleans Oliver A. Houck Compiled and edited by Phillip Collier Text by J. Richard Gruber, Jim Rapier, and Mary Beth Romig With a Hurricane Katrina epilogue featuring photography by David Rae Morris An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the A Mississippi visual and historical love letter for all The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called “the batture.” On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region—ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from Immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life. Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twentyfive years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates on Louisiana, the state of the waterway, and its larger environs. He describes all the actors that have played lead roles on the edge of the mightiest river of the continent, and includes in his narrative plantations, pollution, murder, land grabs, keelboat brawlers, slave rebellions, the Corps of Engineers, and the oil industry. Houck draws from his experience in New Orleans since the early 1970s in the practice and teaching of law. He has been a player in many of the issues he describes, although he does not undertake to argue them here. Instead, story by story, he uses the batture to explore the forces that have shaped and spell out the future of the region. The picture emerges of a place that—for all its tangle of undergrowth, drifting humanity, shifting dimensions in the rise and fall of floodwater—provides respite and sanctuary for values that are original to America and ever at risk from the homogenizing forces of civilization. those who know what it means to miss New Orleans Though thirty years in the making, Phillip Collier’s Missing New Orleans was almost another treasure lost to Hurricane Katrina. Final proof was due at the New Orleans printer August 31, 2005, just days after floodwaters breached the levees. To the principals of the book, “missing New Orleans” took on personal, devastating meanings. This pictorial history of New Orleans from the early 1700s to the present offers over 250 images as well as stories of places, entities, and events that were at one time a vital part of the city. Each lost gem tells a unique narrative: the Claiborne Avenue Oaks, the French Opera House, Pontchartrain and Lincoln Beaches, the Gypsy Tea Room, Tulane and Pelican Stadiums, Mr. Bingle, and D. H. Holmes. Images celebrate grand historic structures that once stood along New Orleans thoroughfares, including the St. Louis and St. Charles Hotels from the mid-nineteenth century and the five downtown railroad stations and the Rivergate from the twentieth century. Through the photographs, postcards, posters, maps, and line drawings gathered by New Orleans graphic designer Phillip Collier, those enamored of the Crescent City can explore a time when West End Park and Spanish Fort were lakefront resort destinations, when boxing and horse racing ruled the city’s sporting world, when street vendors plied their wares, and steamboats packed the wharves. Oliver A. Houck, New Orleans, Louisiana, a professor of law at Tulane University, received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Environmental Section of the American Bar Association and has been named Louisiana’s Conservationist of the Year, among other honors. He is the author of a book on the Clean Water Act and another called Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World. Phillip Collier, New Orleans, Louisiana, is the owner of Phillip Collier Designs. He also works as a freelance illustrator and, with Jennifer Adams, has published Mixing New Orleans. MAY, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 24 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-461-4 Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-462-1 AVAILABLE, 224 pages, 8¾ x 9 inches, 250 b&w and color illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography, index Paper with dust jacket, $39.95T, 978-0-9772544-0-8 Distributed for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art R elated Inventing New Orleans Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Edited and with an introduction by S. Frederick Starr Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-353-6 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 17 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i A R T H IS T O R Y A R T • L O U ISIANA Fabergé Jean Seidenberg John Webster Keefe Edited by Wanda O’Shello Jean Seidenberg Foreword by Michael Sartisky, PhD With an essay by Chris Waddington The Hodges Family Collection Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture With contributions by Géza von Habsburg, Daniel L. Hodges, Christel L. McCanless, and Kieran McCarthy The record of an extensive collection including pieces from all the firm’s workmasters and outside suppliers This full-color catalog covers the extraordinary range of objects produced by the great Russian self-described “artist-jeweler” Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920). Smoker’s accessories, photograph frames, clocks, desk pieces, boxes, cases, cabinet objects, jewels and costume accessories, table silver, hardstone animals, flowers, and Easter eggs appear in lustrous full-color photographs. All of these pictured are part of the Hodges Family Collection of masterworks by Fabergé, which is the first significant American group of Fabergé works assembled in decades. The Hodges Collection’s inclusion of work by all of the workmasters and outside suppliers of the Fabergé firm further raises its significance. The collection is on extended loan to the New Orleans Museum of Art. Written by the museum’s curator of decorative arts and recognized Fabergé authority, John Webster Keefe, the book includes valuable essays by collector Daniel L. Hodges; by preeminent Fabergé scholar Dr. Géza von Habsburg discussing the astonishing rise of the Fabergé market; by Kieran McCarthy, specialist in Fabergé’s work in wood; and by prominent Fabergé bibliographer Christel L. McCanless. A chronology for the House of Fabergé from 1814 to 2007 is also included. Each piece in the Hodges Family Collection is illustrated in color and accompanied by a full description, an essay on its place in the Fabergé oeuvre, its relevant history, its provenance, and its specific bibliography. John Webster Keefe, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a well-known author in the art history field, particularly on the work of Fabergé. He has published papers in Arts Quarterly and has worked with the New Orleans Museum of Art on art from many other jewelers as well. AVAILABLE, 310 pages (approx.), 9 x 12 inches, 143 color illustrations, bibliography, chronology, index Cloth $65.00T, 978-0-89494-108-5 Distributed for the New Orleans Museum of Art U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 18 Born in 1930 in a working-class Brooklyn family, Jean Seidenberg quickly made art his livelihood. As a teenager, he worked in galleries and learned framing and the craft of silkscreen printing. Through those years, Seidenberg educated his eye in New York’s museums. His work is filled with references—to the incisive line of Edgar Degas, to Willem de Kooning’s freedom with gesture, to the sensuality of Gustave Courbet. Working in New Orleans since 1951, Seidenberg practiced in one of the few American cities disposed to support a full-time figure painter. In the late 1950s, he developed a gesturally charged style. Later, he produced tightly delineated egg tempera works. In the past twenty years, he has cultivated two manners, shifting between densely worked oils executed from life and luminous pencil drawings often based on photographic composites. This book evolved in response to an invitation from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for an exhibition of work from Seidenberg’s sixty-year career as a practicing fine artist. It became part of the Ogden’s continuing Southern Masters Series. With the support of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibit ran from January 3 to April 13, 2008, and is now being presented in book form. Jean Seidenberg, New Orleans, Louisiana, has exhibited artwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and many other locations. AVAILABLE, 144 pages, 9 x 12 inches, 112 color illustrations, 47 b&w illustrations, foreword, chronology, notes Printed casebinding with dust jacket $40.00T, 978-0-9627757-1-0 Distributed for Silkmont & Count and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • S O C I O L O G Y Culture after the Hurricanes Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast Edited by M. B. Hackler Essays by Jay D. Edwards, Keagan LeJeune, Benjamin Morris, Jeffrey Schwartz, Peter G. Stillman, Adelaide H. Villmoare, and W. D. Wilkerson Essays examining the fraught negotiations between official agencies and local communities A retrospective of a defiant New Orleans realist artist R elated Dunlap William Dunlap Essay by J. Richard Gruber Foreword by Julia Reed Cloth $45.00T, 978-1-57806-904-0 American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé Patti Carr Black Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-205-4 Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way The Paintings of John Baeder Edited and with an essay by Jay Williams Preface by Kevin Grogan Introduction by Donald Kuspit Paper $30.00T, 978-1-934110-22-5 in the aftermath Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after of disasters Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attraction to future tourist dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. Since 2005 much is now different for the people of the Gulf Coast, and much more stands to change as governments, national and international nonprofit organizations, churches, and community groups determine how and even where life will continue. This collection elucidates how this process occurs and seeks to understand the cultures that may be saved through assistance or may be allowed to fade away through neglect. Essays in Culture after the Hurricanes examine the ways in which a wide variety of stakeholders—community activists, elected officials, artists, and policy administrators—describe, quantify, and understand the unique assets of the region. Contributors question the process of cultural planning by analyzing the language employed in decision making. They attempt to navigate between rhetoric and the actual experience of ordinary citizens, examining the long-term implications for those who call the Gulf Coast home. M. B. Hackler, Lafayette, Louisiana, is the Board of Regents Ph.D. Fellow in Folklore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the editor of On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture. JULY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations, 7 maps, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-490-4 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-491-1 Photograph—A double camelback house in New Orleans, courtesy Jay D. Edwards R elated Perilous Place, Powerful Storms Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana Craig E. Colten Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-238-2 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 19 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i AME R I C AN H IS T O R Y • C IVIL R IG H T S • AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES R ELIGI O N • C IVIL R IG H T S • AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES Raymond Pace Alexander African American Preachers and politics A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia The Careys of Chicago David A. Canton Dennis C. Dickerson The During most of the twentieth The story of two century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868–1931) and Archibald J. African American Carey, Jr. (1908–1981), father and ministers and their son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African struggle to balance American religious leaders pursued. both sacred and Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the secular worlds spiritual and material well-being of their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both wrestled with moral consequences and varied outcomes. Both were ministers to Chicago’s largest African Methodist Episcopal Church congregations—the senior Carey as a bishop, and the junior Carey as a pastor and an attorney. Bishop Carey associated himself mainly with Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson, a Republican, whom he presented to black voters as an ally. When the mayor appointed Carey to the city’s civil service commission, Carey helped in the hiring and promotion of local blacks. But alleged impropriety for selling jobs marred the bishop’s tenure. The junior Carey, also a Republican and an alderman, became head of the panel on anti-discrimination in employment for the Eisenhower administration. He aided innumerable black federal employees. Although an influential benefactor of CORE and SCLC, Carey associated with notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and compromised support for Martin Luther King, Jr. Both Careys believed politics offered clergy the best opportunities to empower the black population. Their imperfect alliances and mixed results, however, proved the complexity of combining the realms of spirituality and politics. story of a nearly forgotten lawyer fighting for justice Raymond Pace Alexander (1897–1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, and Thurgood Marshall, Alexander litigated civil rights cases and became well known in Philadelphia. Yet his legacy to the civil rights struggle has received little national recognition. As a New Negro lawyer during the 1930s, Alexander worked with left-wing organizations to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Berwin, Pennsylvania. After World War II, he became an anti-communist liberal and formed coalitions with like-minded whites. In the sixties, Alexander criticized Black Power rhetoric, but shared some philosophies with Black Power such as black political empowerment and studying black history. By the late sixties, he focused on economic justice by advocating a Marshall Plan for poor Americans and supporting affirmative action. Alexander was a major contributor to the northern civil rights struggle and was committed to improving the status of black lawyers. He was representative of a generation who created opportunities for African Americans but was later often ignored or castigated by younger leaders who did not support the tactics of the old guard’s pioneers. Dennis C. Dickerson, Nashville, Tennessee, is James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His previous books are Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980 and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. David A. Canton, Hamden, Connecticut, is associate professor of history at Connecticut College. His work has appeared in Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Urban History, Reviews in American History, and Pennsylvania History. JULY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 19 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-427-0 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-428-7 Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies MAY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 16 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-425-6 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-426-3 Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies Photograph—Raymond Pace Alexander, courtesy Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Archives R E L AT E D African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas Johnny E. Williams A l s o i n t h e s er i e s Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-186-6 Daisy Bates Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Grif Stockley Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-801-2 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 20 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES • AME R I C AN H IS T O R Y P O LI T I C S • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES On the Ground Crusades for Freedom Edited by Judson L. Jeffries G. Wayne Dowdy The Black Panther Party in Communities across America Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South How Republicans and African Americans took Essays by Reynaldo Anderson, Orissa Arend, Omari Dyson, Bruce Fehn, Robert Jefferson, Judson L. Jeffries, Charles E. Jones, Ryan Nissim-Sabat, Joel P. Rhodes, and Jeffrey Zane The Black Panther Party sufEssays revising the fers from a distorted image largely framed by television Panthers’ image, and print media, including emphasizing tireless the Panthers’ own newspaper. These sources frequently community organizing reduced the entire organizaand assistance to the tion to the Bay Area where the Panthers were founded, underprivileged emphasizing the Panthers’ militant rhetoric and actions rather than their community survival programs. This image, however, does not mesh with reality. The Panthers worked tirelessly at improving the life chances of the downtrodden regardless of race, gender, creed, or sexual orientation. In order to chronicle the rich history of the Black Panther Party, this anthology examines local Panther activities throughout the United States—in Seattle, Washington; Kansas City, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; and Detroit, Michigan. This approach features the voices of people who served on the ground—those who kept the offices in order, prepared breakfasts for school children, administered sickle cell anemia tests, set up health clinics, and launched free clothing drives. The essays shed new light on the Black Panther Party, re-evaluating its legacy in American cultural and political history. Just as important, this volume gives voice to those unsung Panthers whose valiant efforts have heretofore gone unnoticed, unheard, or ignored. the stage after the fall of a great southern political machine During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by Edward Hull Crump, described by Time magazine as “the most absolute political boss in the U.S.” Crusades for Freedom chronicles the demise of the Crump political machine and the corresponding rise to power of the South’s two minorities, African Americans and Republicans. Between the years 1948 and 1968, Memphis emerged as a battleground in the struggle to create a strong two-party South. For the first time in its history, both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates campaigned vigorously for the Bluff City’s votes. Closely tied to these changing political fortunes was the struggle of African Americans to overturn two centuries of discrimination. At the same time, many believed that the city needed a more modern political structure to meet the challenges of the 1950s and 1960s, preferably a mayor–city council governmental structure. By 1968 the segregated social order had collapsed, black politicians were firmly entrenched within the Democratic party, southern whites had swelled the ranks of the GOP, and Memphis had adopted a new city charter. G. Wayne Dowdy, Memphis, Tennessee, is a senior librarian and archivist at the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Journal of Negro History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and other publications. Judson L. Jeffries, Columbus, Ohio, is professor of African American and African studies and the director of the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center at the Ohio State University–Columbus. He is the editor of Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party and Black Power in the Belly of the Beast and the author of Urban America and Its Police: From the Postcolonial Era through the Turbulent 1960s (with Harlan Hahn). JULY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-492-8 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-493-5 MARCH,176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, 2 appendices, bibliography, index Cloth $45.00S, 978-1-60473-423-2 Ebook $45.00, 978-1-60473-424-9 Photograph—A. W. Willis, Benjamin L. Hooks, Ben Jones, Russell Sugarman, and H. T. Lockard, courtesy A. W. Willis Collection, Memphis Public Library and Information Center R E L AT E D R elated Mayor Crump Don’t Like It Machine Politics in Memphis Huey P. Newton The Radical Theorist G. Wayne Dowdy Judson L. Jeffries Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-859-3 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-113-2 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-877-7 O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s 21 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i F O L K L O R E • po s tco l o n i a l s tu d i e s • G R EA T B R I T AIN f o l k m u s i c • BALLADS The Story-Time of the British Empire The High-Kilted Muse Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics Edited by Murray Shoolbraid Foreword by Ed Cray Sadhana Naithani In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector A never-before Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of published risqué and convivial songs and ballads collection of to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was infamous Scottish preparing his magisterial edition of bawdy ballads The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made enquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript has languished there ever since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items have from time to time made an appearance. The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details of Buchan’s two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a longsuppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and ballads. In The Story-Time of the British Empire, An analysis of the author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by folklore collected British colonial administrators, miliby imperials and tary men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, colonials during Asia, and Australia between 1860 the second empire and 1950. Much of this work was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists, yet these oral narratives and poetic expressions of non-Europeans were transcribed, translated, published, and discussed internationally. Naithani analyzes the role of folklore scholarship in the construction of colonial cultural politics as well as in the conception of international folklore studies. Since most folklore scholarship and cultural history focuses exclusively on specific nations, there is little study of cross-cultural phenomena about empire and/or postcoloniality. Naithani argues that connecting cultural histories, especially in relation to previously colonized countries, is essential to understanding those countries’ folklore, as these folk traditions result from both internal and European influence. The author also makes clear the role folklore and its study played in shaping intercultural perceptions that continue to exist in the academic and popular realms today. The Story-Time of the British Empire is a bold argument for a twenty-first-century vision of folklore studies that is international in scope and that understands folklore as a transnational entity. Murray Shoolbraid, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, is a retired professor of linguistics and Russian. He is the author of The Oral Epic of Siberia and Central Asia, and his work has been published in several folklore journals. Sadhana Naithani, New Delhi, India, is an associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke and editor of Folktales from Northern India. JUNE, 160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Printed casebinding $50.00S, 978-1-60473-455-3 Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-456-0 MAY, 336 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, foreword, introduction, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index Cloth $55.00S, 978-1-60473-417-1 Ebook $55.00, 978-1-60473-431-7 Published in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland R elated R elated Postcolonial Cultures The Glenbuchat Ballads Paper $22.00S, 978-1-57806-771-8 Cloth $60.00S, 978-1-57806-972-9 Recentering Anglo/American Folksong Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths Scottish Traveller Tales Lives Shaped through Stories Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira Simon Featherstone Donald Braid Roger deV. Renwick Paper $25.00D, 978-1-934110-98-0 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-254-2 U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i 22 Call: 1 . 8 0 0 . 7 3 7 . 7 7 8 8 to l l - f r e e AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E • AF R I C AN AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by Susan Prothro Wright and Ernestine Pickens Glass Essays by Margaret D. Bauer, Keith Byerman, Martha J. Cutter, SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Donald B. Gibson, Scott Thomas Gibson, Aaron Ritzenberg,Werner Sollors, and Susan Prothro Wright R elated Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt is a colAn exploration of lection that reevaluates Chesnutt’s deft manipulation of the “passing” theme to expand a great American understanding of the author’s fiction and nonwriter’s abiding fiction. Nine contributors apply a variety of theories—including intertextual, signifying/dis- concern with the course analysis, narratological, formal, psychocolor line analytical, new historical, reader response, and performative frameworks—to add richness to readings of Chesnutt’s works. Together the essays provide convincing evidence that “passing” is an intricate, essential part of Chesnutt’s writing, and that it appears in all the genres he wielded: journal entries, speeches, essays, and short and long fiction. The essays engage with each other to display the continuum in Chesnutt’s thinking as he began his writing career and established his sense of social activism, as evidenced in his early journal entries. Collectively, the essays follow Chesnutt’s works as he proceeded through the Jim Crow era, honing his ability to manipulate his mostly white audience through the astute, though apparently self-effacing, narrator, Uncle Julius, of his popular conjure tales. Chesnutt’s ability to subvert audience expectations is equally noticeable in the subtle irony of his short stories. Several of the collection’s essays address Chesnutt’s novels, including Paul Marchand, F.M.C., Mandy Oxendine, The House Behind the Cedars, and Evelyn’s Husband. The volume opens up new paths of inquiry into a major African American writer’s oeuvre. B y C h arle s W . C h e s n u tt Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt Matthew Wilson Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-667-4 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-248-1 A Business Career Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-761-9 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-257-3 Evelyn’s Husband Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-760-2 Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-258-0 Paul Marchand, F.M.C. Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-798-5 Susan Prothro Wright, Marietta, Georgia, associate professor of American and British literature at Clark Atlanta University, has published on Chesnutt and other American authors in a variety of scholarly venues. 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McDowell, Gary Richards, Michael Wainwright, and Michael Zeitlin Absalom, Absalom! has long been For teachers and regarded as one of William Faulkner’s most difficult, dense, and multilayered students, a guide novels. It is, on one level, the story to understanding of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the one of Faulkner’s early 1830s to wrest his mansion out masterpieces of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.” On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the entire Sutpen family and that tragedy’s legacy that continues well into the twentieth century and beyond. The novel’s intricate, demanding prose style, and its haunting dramatization of the South’s intricate, demanding history make it a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature. Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! offers a close examination and interpretation of the novel. Here difficult words and cultural terms that might prove to be a problem for general readers are explained and keyed to page numbers in the definitive Faulkner text (Library of America and Vintage editions). The authors place Faulkner’s novel in its historical context, while also connecting it to his other works. William Faulkner grew up and Essays that tackle began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, the complex sexual especially in the realm of sexualtensions and ity, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was trappings in the being re-examined. Not only does Nobel Laureate’s Faulkner explore multiple versions of sexuality throughout his work, work but he also studies the sexual dimension of various social, economic, and aesthetic concerns. In Faulkner’s Sexualities, contributors query Faulkner’s life and fiction in terms of sexual identity, sexual politics, and the ways in which such concerns affect his aesthetics. 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U.S. Postage PA ID Jackson, MS 39205 Permit No. 10 Celebrating 40 Years UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI Books for Spring–Summer 2010 INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE A HISTORY OF STAR MAKERS, FABRICATORS, AND GOSSIP MONGERS ANTHONY SLIDE My Life with Charlie Brown, By Charles M. Schulz, Page 2