University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
by Michael Ann Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events,...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
Desi Divas
Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam,...
The Story of French New Orleans
History of a Creole City
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last...
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on...
Quentin Tarantino
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification.
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Both comics studies...
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The Search for Good Wine is a highly entertaining and informative book on all aspects of wine and its consumption by nationally-syndicated wine columnist John Hailman, author of the critically-acclaimed Thomas Jefferson on Wine (2006). Hailman explores the wine-drinking experiences and tastes of famous...
Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from America's western frontier to live with her wealthy maternal Aunt Polly in the fictional east coast...
by John C. Wideman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
In 1862, in one of the South's most amazing secret operations, a Confederate team, using newly invented explosive mines, blew up the USS Cairo, one of the Union's most feared ironclad gunboats. It sank within minutes. The USS Cairo is the only remaining vessel from the Union navy's river fleet. For...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations,...
by Jason Edward Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government...
Monsters in the Machine
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Jay Watson
From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching...