Lsu Press: 854 books
Calls and Responses
The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed...
by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching...
Blood Work
Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...
Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic...
Theater of Memory
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Winner of the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
Gifted with a unique and elemental style that goes to the heart of things, often with Zenlike simplicity, Mark Perlberg published four books of poetry over the course of his long and accomplished life. At the time of his death in 2008 he was in the process...
by Julia B. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
"A polished poet of extraordinary skill.... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering." -- Library Journal
With an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experience that slips...
by William Styron
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“I’ve finally pretty much decided what to write next—a novel based on Nat Turner’s rebellion,” twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but...
by Jane Turner Censer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow. Profusely illustrated with the experiences of fascinating...
Queer Chivalry
Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer...
Precious Perversions
Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The tragic sentiment of Southern literature and its heteronormative perspective are foundational attributes generally accepted by both popular and scholarly audiences. Yet a pantheon of great authors ranging from like Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote to present-day voices of...
The Bad Secret
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also distinguished by brilliant images close to metaphysical....
In Tune
Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists -- one white, one black --...
Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South
The Life of a Soldier of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie,"...
The Mississippi Delta and the World
The Memoirs of David L. Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten books including his best known, God Shakes Creation, later expanded into Where I Was Born and Raised -- and scores of articles and essays, including...