University Press Of Mississippi: 979 books
by David A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture...
The Comics of Rutu Modan
War, Love, and Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Best known for her Eisner Award–winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan’s richly colored compositions invite readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often defined only by news headlines. Her strong female protagonists stick out in a comics scene still...
by Roberta Seelinger Trites
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing...
Dis-Orienting Planets
Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
With contributions by:
Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Over three decades, celebrated fiction writer Andre Dubus (1936-1999) published seven collections of short stories, two collections of essays, two collections of previously published stories, two novels, and a novella. While this is an impressive publishing record for any writer, for Dubus, who suffered...
Can’t Stand Still
Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893–1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important figure...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation...
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee's Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the railing...
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee’s Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the...
China in the Mix
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-Socialist China. In this study,...
The Artistry of Neil Gaiman
Finding Light in the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Contributions by Lanette Cadle, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem, Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Andrew Eichel, Kyle Eveleth, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Darren Harris-Fain, Krystal Howard, Christopher D. Kilgore, Kristine Larsen, Thayse Madella, Erica McCrystal, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Danielle Russell, Joe Sutliff Sanders,...
The Hell of War Comes Home
Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Owen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the trauma of September 11, the experience of Americans at war has...
The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Good Grief of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
With contributions by:
Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders, Jeffrey O. Segrave, and Michael Tisserand
The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays...
Fear and What Follows
The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, "This might be a controversial book, in the best way--controversial...