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6 ACTING MY FACE: A MEMOIR17 ALAN LOMAX, ASSISTANT IN CHARGE: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LETTERS, 1935–194531 BLACK BASEBALL, BLACK BUSINESS: RACE ENTERPRISE AND THE

FATE OF THE SEGREGATED DOLLAR33 BUILDING THE BELOVED COMMUNITY: PHILADELPHIA’S INTERRACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND RACE RELATIONS, 1930–19709 CARROLL CLOAR: IN HIS STUDIO24 CONVERSATIONS WITH JAY PARINI24 CONVERSATIONS WITH KEN KESEY25 CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM GIBSON14 COUNT THEM ONE BY ONE: BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE16 CREATING JAZZ COUNTERPOINT: NEW ORLEANS, BARBERSHOP HARMONY, AND THE BLUES21 DAVID FINCHER: INTERVIEWS10 DAVID L. JORDAN: FROM THE MISSISSIPPI COTTON FIELDS TO THE STATE SENATE, A MEMOIR2-3 DELTA DOGS23 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY26 EMBROIDERED STORIES: INTERPRETING WOMEN’S DOMESTIC NEEDLEWORK FROM THE ITALIAN DIASPORA35 FAULKNER AND FORMALISM: RETURNS OF THE TEXT35 FAULKNER AND MYSTERY11 FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: A HANDBOOK FOR MISSISSIPPI LANDOWNERS26 FOLKLORE THEORY IN POSTWAR GERMANY22 FRED ZINNEMANN AND THE CINEMA OF RESISTANCE8 HAPPY CLOUDS, HAPPY TREES: THE BOB ROSS PHENOMENON13 THE HOUSE THAT SUGARCANE BUILT: THE LOUISIANA BURGUIÈRES15 JAMES Z. GEORGE: MISSISSIPPI’S GREAT COMMONER17 THE JAZZ IMAGE: SEEING MUSIC THROUGH HERMAN LEONARD’S PHOTOGRAPHY19 KOMIKS: COMIC ART IN RUSSIA27 LEGEND-TRIPPING ONLINE: SUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE AND THE SEARCH FOR ONG’S HAT18 LITTLE RED READINGS: HISTORICAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S LITERATURE13 LIVESTOCK BRANDS AND MARKS: AN UNEXPECTED BAYOU COUNTRY HISTORY 1822–1946: PIONEER FAMILIES TERREBONNE PARISH, LOUISIANA16 LONESOME MELODIES: THE LIVES AND MUSIC OF THE STANLEY BROTHERS22 MAKING AND REMAKING HORROR IN THE 1970S AND 2000S: WHY DON’T THEY DO IT LIKE THEY USED TO?6 MARILYN MONROE: A LIFE OF THE ACTRESS, REVISED AND UPDATED12 MAYOR VICTOR H. SCHIRO: NEW ORLEANS IN TRANSITION, 1961–197015 THE MIND OF THE SOUTH: FIFTY YEARS LATER10 MISSISSIPPI ENTREPRENEURS1 A NEW HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI28 OIL AND WATER: MEDIA LESSONS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER32 POST-SOUL SATIRE: BLACK IDENTITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS 7 THE PRESIDENT’S LADIES: JANE WYMAN AND NANCY DAVIS32 RACE AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENON: THE VISION OF A MORE PERFECT MULTIRACIAL UNION 21 RAVISHED ARMENIA AND THE STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN12 RUSSELL LONG: A LIFE IN POLITICS7 THE SEARCH FOR SAM GOLDWYN30 THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTO: MASSIVE RESISTANCE AND THE FIGHT TO PRESERVE SEGREGATION29 THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA’S PROMISE: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT THE DAWN OF CORPORATE CAPITAL 20 TODD HAYNES: INTERVIEWS34 TONI MORRISON: MEMORY AND MEANING28 TROUBLE IN GOSHEN: PLAIN FOLK, ROOSEVELT, JESUS, AND MARX IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION SOUTH4-5 THE TRUE GOSPEL PREACHED HERE30 A VOICE THAT COULD STIR AN ARMY: FANNIE LOU HAMER AND THE RHETORIC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT14 WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE JACKSON WOOLWORTH’S SIT-IN AND THE MOVEMENT IT INSPIRED20 WERNER HERZOG: INTERVIEWS18 WIDE AWAKE IN SLUMBERLAND: FANTASY, MASS CULTURE, AND MODERNISM IN THE ART OF WINSOR MCCAY29 WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE34 WRITING IN THE KITCHEN: ESSAYS ON SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND FOODWAYS

CALENDAR OF PUBLICATION DATESAVAILABLE: Carroll Cloar • Livestock Brands and Marks MARCH: Acting My Face • Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge • Black Baseball, Black Business • David L. Jordan • Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance • James Z. George • The Jazz Image • Lonesome Melodies • Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s • Trouble in Goshen • We Shall Not Be Moved APRIL: Conversations with William Gibson • Creating Jazz Counterpoint • Happy Clouds, Happy Trees • Komiks • The Mind of the South • The President’s Ladies • Russell Long • Werner Herzog • Wide Awake in Slumberland MAY: Conversations with Ken Kesey • Mississippi Entrepreneurs • Oil and Water • Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian • The Search for Sam Goldwyn • The Struggle for America’s Promise • Todd Haynes • The True Gospel Preached Here JUNE: Delta Dogs • Douglas Fair-banks and the American Century • Faulkner and Formalism • Faulkner and Mystery • Little Red Readings • Marilyn Monroe • A New History of Mississippi • A Voice That Could Stir an Army JULY: Building the Beloved Community • Conversations with Jay Parini • The House that Sugarcane Built • Legend-Tripping Online • Mayor Victor H. Schiro • Post-Soul Satire • The Southern Manifesto AUGUST: Count Them One by One • David Fincher • Embroidered Stories • Fish and Wildlife Management • Race and the Obama Phenomenon • Toni Morrison • Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance • Writing in the Kitchen

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Photographs—Front cover by Maude Schuyler Clay; back cover—“Reverend H. D. Dennis Preaching in Bus, 2000”, by Bruce West

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HISTORY • MISSISSIPPI

A NEW HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPIDennis J. Mitchell

Creating the first comprehensive narrative of Mississippi since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, Dennis J. Mitchell recounts the vibrant and turbulent history of a Deep South state. The author has condensed the massive scholarship produced since that time into an appealing narrative, which incorporates people missing from many previous histories including American Indians, women, African Americans, and a diversity of other minority groups. This is the story of a place and its people, history makers and ordinary citizens alike. Mississippi’s rich flora and fauna are also central to the story, which follows both natural and man-made destruction and the major efforts to restore and defend rare untouched areas. Hernando De Soto, Sieur d’Iberville, Ferdinand Claiborne, Thomas Hinds, Aaron Burr, Greenwood LeFlore, Joseph Davis, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James D. Lynch, James K. Vardaman, Mary Grace Quack-enbos, Ida B. Wells, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, John Grisham, Jack Reed, William F. Winter, Jim Barksdale, Richard Howorth, Christopher Epps, and too many more to list—this book covers a vast and rich legacy. From the rise and fall of American Indian culture to the advent of Mississippi’s world-renowned literary, artistic, and scientific contributions, Mitchell vividly brings to life the individuals and institutions that have created a fascinating and diverse state.

DENNIS J. MITCHELL, Lauderdale, Mississippi, is head of the division of arts and sciences and professor of history at Mississippi State University at Meridian. He is the author of A Rich Past A Vibrant Future: The History & Renovation of the Marks Rothenberg and Grand Opera House Buildings; Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith and Mississippi: Portrait of an American State, among others.

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Photographs—Top: Choctaw warrior and leader Pushmataha, courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History from the Pushmataha Collection; below (left, then clockwise): Ellen Douglas by Kay Holloway; Amzie Moore by Harvey Richards, courtesy of Paul Richards and the Harvey Richards Media Archive. Canton Nissan Automotive Plant, courtesy of the author.

THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE

HISTORY OF THE STATE IN

NEARLY FOUR DECADES

The Mississippi Delta is known for many things. It is a land of stark contrast, in which rich soil produces an agri-cultural bounty as well as fearsome economic want. The Delta has compelled generations of writers, musicians, and artists to chronicle and engage its harsh and mysterious beauty. Seen through the penetrating lens of noted photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, the nearly deserted buildings and landscapes of the Delta are brought to life by the dogs that roam the wide fields and swamp-soaked shadows. For the past fifteen years, Clay has been driving the back roads photographing her native Delta. In the dark-room of her hundred-year-old family homestead in Sumner, she has developed hundreds of images of eroding architecture, misty bayous, small stands of woods, endless rows of crops. And dogs. Maude has spotted and captured the elemental spirit of dogs eking out existences from this majestic landscape. In her iconic book Delta Land, Clay introduced the “Dog in the Fog,” the muscular lab standing watch in the mist and trees of Cassidy Bayou. This photo became widely recognized, and Clay wanted to further explore the relationship between the land and the numerous dogs populating its fields, bayous, and abandoned spaces. This new book, Delta Dogs, celebrates the canines who roam this most storied corner of Mississippi. Some of Clay’s photographs feature lone dogs dwarfed by kudzu-choked trees and hidden among the brambles next to plowed fields. In others, dogs travel in amiable packs, trotting toward a shared but mysterious adventure. Her Delta dogs are by turns soulful, eager, wary, resigned, menacing, and contented. Writers Brad Watson and Beth Ann Fennelly ponder Clay’s dogs and their connections to the Delta, specu-lating about their role in the drama of everyday life and about their relationships to the humans who share this landscape with them. In a photographer’s afterword, Clay writes about discovering the beauty of her native land from within. She finds that the ubiquitous presence of the Delta dog gives scale, life, and sometimes even whimsy and intent to her Mississippi landscape.

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

FROM THE BELOVED

CREATOR OF DELTA

LAND

DELTA DOGS

Maude Schuyler ClayIntroduction by Brad WatsonEssay by Beth Ann Fennelly

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MAUDE SCHUYLER CLAY, Sumner, Mississippi, was born in Greenwood and assisted photographer William Eggleston. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, among others. In 1999 University Press of Mississippi published Delta Land, which received the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award and the Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant. Clay was also the photography editor of the Oxford American from 1998 to 2002. She continues to reside in the Mississippi Delta.

Photographs—Maude Schuyler Clay

Bruce West’s color photographs document the spiritual and creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist, architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis, and his wife, Margaret, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This book explores the fantastic world of the elderly couple who devoted more than twenty years of their lives to converting Margaret’s Grocery store into a one-of-a-kind nondenominational church. Guided by visions from God, their elaborate transformation of Margaret’s Grocery involved the construction of several towers, the creation of the Ark of the Covenant containing tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, and new religious iconography. A sign at the entrance announced: “Welcome Jews and Gentile This Church Open 24 Hours a Day.” Another sign promised: “The True Gospel Preached Here.” Bands of high-gloss red, white, blue, green, yellow, and pink paint covered the towers and exterior. Religious artifacts, Mardi Gras beads, plastic flowers, hubcaps, and flashing Christmas lights encrusted the interior walls and ceilings and an old school bus. The Reverend used his church as a roadside attraction to lure seekers so that he could deliver fiery sermons and orations about the need to “practice living perfectly” and the ceaseless pursuit of spiritual wisdom. The product of twenty years of labor and multiple site visits, West’s photographs are both intimate and trans-parent, tenderly revealing the Reverend and Margaret’s love of God and for one another, their commitment to their work, and their shared transformation while aging together. The images offer unique insights into the role of spirituality in southern folk art and creativity and the joys and demands of an ascetic and inspired life.

BRUCE WEST, Springfield, Missouri, is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and are included in museum collections such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Library of Congress, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His photographs have appeared in American Photography 14; The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith; and For, From, About James T. Whitehead: Poems, Stories, Photographs, and Recollections.

Photographs ( from left, then clockwise)—“The True Gospel Preached Here, 2007”; “Reverend H. D. Dennis with Ear Trumpet, #2, 2005”; “Altar, Inside Bus / Church, 2007”; “The Reverend and Margaret Dennis, #2, 2002.”

THE DOCUMENTARY OF

REVEREND DENNIS’S

LOST, ONE-OF-A-KIND,

NONDENOMINATIONAL

CHURCH AND TREASURE

OF FOLK ART

THE TRUE GOSPEL PREACHED HERE

Bruce WestForeword by Tom Rankin


PHOTOGRAPHY • FOLK ART


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THE REVEALING STORY OF A

HOLLYWOOD BAD GUY WITH A

GOOD GUY’S HEART

ACTING MY FACEA MEMOIR

Anthony James

Actor Anthony James has played killers, psychopaths, and other twisted charac-ters throughout his Hollywood career. In the summer of 1967, James made his motion picture debut as the murderer in the Academy Award–winning Best Pic-ture, In the Heat of the Night. His role in the 1992 Academy Award–winning Best

Picture, Unforgiven, culminated a unique, twenty-eight year career. Behind his menacing and memorable face, however, is a thoughtful, gentle man, one who muses deeply on the nature of art and creativity and on the family ties that have sustained him. James’s Acting My Face renders Hollywood through the eyes and experience of an established character actor. James appeared on screen with such legendary stars as Clint Eastwood, Bette Davis, Gene Hack-man, and Sidney Poitier, and in such classic television shows as Gun-smoke, The Big Valley, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, and The A-Team. Yet, it is his mother’s heroic story that captures his imagination. In an odyssey which in 1940 took her and her newly wedded husband from Greece to a small southern town in America where she bore her only child, James’s mother suffered the early death of her husband when James was only eight years old. In the blink of an eye, she went from grand hostess of her husband’s lavish parties to hotel maid. But like the lioness she was, she fought with great ferocity and outrageous will in her relentless devotion to James’s future. And so it was, that on an August morning in 1960, eighteen-year-old James and his mother took a train from South Carolina three thousand miles to Hollywood, California, to realize his dream of an acting career. They possessed only two hundred dollars, their courage, and an astonishing degree of naiveté. After his retirement in 1994, James and his mother moved to Arlington, Massachusetts, where he concentrated on his painting and poetry. His mother died in 2008 at the age of ninety-four, still a lioness protecting her beloved son. Acting My Face is an unusual memoir, one that explores the true nature of a working life in Hollywood and how aspirations and personal devotion are forged into a career.

ANTHONY JAMES, Arlington, Massachusetts, has appeared in nearly thirty motion pictures and sixty television shows.

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MARILYN MONROEA LIFE OF THE ACTRESS, REVISED AND UPDATED

Carl Rollyson

In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962) has evolved in stat-ure from movie superstar to American icon. Monroe’s own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort to perfect her talent as an actress are explored with great sensitivity in Carl Rollyson’s engaging narrative. He

shows how movies became crucial events in the shaping of Monroe’s identity. He regards her enduring gifts as a creative artist, discussing how her smaller roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve established the context for her career, while in-depth chapters on her more import-ant roles in Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot, and The Misfits provide the center-piece of his examination of her life and career. Through extensive interviews with many of Monroe’s colleagues, close friends, and other biographers, and a careful rethinking of the lit-erature written about her, Rollyson is able to describe her use of Method acting and her studies with Michael Chekhov and Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors’ Studio in New York. The author also analyzes several of Monroe’s own drawings, diary notes, and letters that have recently become available. With over thirty black and white photographs (some published for the first time), a new foreword, and a new afterword, this volume brings Rollyson’s 1986 book up to date. From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.

CARL ROLLYSON, Cape May County, New Jersey, is the advisory editor of the Hollywood Legends series, University Press of Mississippi, and the author of several biographies, including Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (published by University Press of Mississippi); American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; and Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography. He is a professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York.

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THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO

FOCUS ON THE AMERICAN

ICON’S ACTING CRAFT


A BIOGRAPHY THAT PARTS

THE CURTAIN ON THE TRUE

STORY BEHIND HOLLYWOOD’S

ORIGINAL MOVIE MOGUL

THE SEARCH FORSAM GOLDWYN

Carol EastonForeword by Carl Rollyson

Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films—including

such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, The Little Foxes, and The Best Years of Our Lives—and worked with many luminaries—Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, George Balanchine, Lillian Hellman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Eddie Cantor, Busby Berkeley, Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon, and Bob Hope among them. When Samuel Goldfisch was born in the Warsaw ghetto, he was penniless; when Sam Goldwyn died in Los Angeles, he was worth an estimated $19 million. The Search for Sam Goldwyn locates the real Sam Goldwyn and shat-ters the “hostile conspiracy of silence” that protected his legend. In writing Goldwyn’s story, Carol Easton has given us a fine examination of “the civilization known as Hollywood” and how Goldwyn himself shaped that culture.

CAROL EASTON, Venice, California, has published the biographies Straight Ahead: The Story of Stan Kenton; Jacqueline du Pre: A Life; and No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille, a New York Times Notable Book of 1996.

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THE PRESIDENT’S LADIESJANE WYMAN AND NANCY DAVIS

Bernard F. Dick

Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America’s most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connec-tions among Jane Wyman (1917–2007), Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921).

Jane Wyman, who married Reagan in 1940 and divorced him seven years later, knew an early life of privation. She gravitated to the movies and made her debut at fifteen as an unbilled member of the chorus, then toiled as an extra for four years until she finally received billing. She proved herself as a dramatic actress in The Lost Weekend, and the following year, she was nominated for an Oscar for The Yearling and soon won for her performance in Johnny Belinda, in which she did not speak a single line. Other Oscar nominations followed, along with a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest. Conversely, Nancy Davis led a relatively charmed life, the daughter of an actress and the stepdaughter of a neurosurgeon. Surrounded by her mother’s friends—Walter Huston, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hep-burn, Lillian Gish, and Alla Nazimova, her godmother—Davis started in the theater, then moved on to Hollywood, where she enjoyed modest success, and finally began working in television. When she married Reagan in 1952, she unwittingly married into politics, eventually leaving acting to concentrate on being the wife of the governor of California, and then the wife of the president of the United States. In her way, Davis played her greatest role as Reagan’s friend, confidante, and adviser in life and in politics. This book considers three actors who left an indelible mark on both popular and political culture for more than fifty years.

BERNARD F. DICK, Teaneck, New Jersey, is professor emeritus of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is the author of Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell; Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty; Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (all published by University Press of Mississippi); and several other books.

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A FASCINATING STORY OF

JANE WYMAN, RONALD

REAGAN, AND NANCY DAVIS

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BIOGRAPHY • POPULAR CULTURE • ART

HAPPY CLOUDS, HAPPY TREESTHE BOB ROSS PHENOMENON

Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, and Danny Coeyman

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942–1995) as the gentle, afro’d painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a healer and painter, even decades after his death. In Happy Clouds, Happy Trees, the authors thoughtfully explore how the Bob Ross phenomenon grew into a juggernaut. Although his sincerity in embracing democracy, gift economies, conservation, and self-help may have left him previously denigrated as a subject of rigorous scholarship, this book uses contemporary art theory to explore the sophistication of Bob Ross’s vision as an artist. It traces the ways in which his many fans have worshiped, emulated, and parodied him and his work. His technique allowed him to paint over 35,000 paintings in his lifetime, mostly of mountains and trees in landscapes heavily influenced by his time in the Air Force and stationed in Alaska. The authors address issues of amateur art, sentimentality, imitation, boredom, seduction, and demo-cratic practices in the art world. They fully examine Ross as a painter, teacher, healer, media star, performer, magician, and networker. In-depth comparisons are made to Andy Warhol and Thomas Kinkade, and men-tion is made of his life in relation to Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley, St. Francis of Assisi, Carl Rogers, and many other creative personalities. In the end, Happy Clouds, Happy Trees presents Ross as a gift giver, someone who freely teaches the act of painting to anyone who believes in Ross’s vision that “this is your world.”

KRISTIN G. CONGDON, Winter Park, Florida, is professor emerita of philosophy and humanities at the University of Central Florida. Her authored or coauthored books include American Folk Art: A Regional Refer-ence and Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art (published by Unversity Press of Mississippi). DOUG BLANDY, Eugene, Oregon, is professor and senior vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Oregon. He has been published in Studies in Art Education and Art Education, among other journals, and has coedited five anthologies in art education. Painter DANNY COEYMAN, Brooklyn, New York, earned his MFA from Parsons in 2006 and received a Jack Kent Cooke Fellowship.

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Photographs—“Portrait of Bob Ross in 30 Minutes Using His Techniques,” by Danny Coeyman; “Mountains Renewed,” oil on canvas, September 2012, by Davy T. Painterman

AN EXPLORATION OF ONE

OF THE MOST BELOVED AND

TALENTED ARTISTS AND

PAINTING INSTRUCTORS

EVER TO TEACH ON

AMERICAN TELEVISION

ART • BIOGRAPHY • SOUTHERN STATES


ART • BIOGRAPHY • SOUTHERN STATES

CARROLL CLOARIN HIS STUDIO

Art Museum of the University of Memphis

One of the South’s most beloved painters, Carroll Cloar (1913-1993) worked daily from 1959 until his death in his home on South Greer Street in Memphis, Tennessee. His studio was lined with newspapers and mag-azine articles that held special significance or inspiration, and he added memorabilia from various periods of his life. The walls were a work in progress and microcosm of Cloar’s world. The studio, reconstructed in the Art Museum of the University of Memphis in 2013, is the point of departure for considering Cloar’s drawings, lithographs, and paintings as well as his artistic practice. Cloar was an insightful and witty writer as well as a painter, and selections from his manuscripts furnish the text. Cloar was born and raised in Crittenden County, Arkansas, and educated at Southwestern (Rhodes) College and the Memphis Academy of Art. In 1936 he went to New York to study at the Art Students League expecting never to return to the South, but after twenty years of living on and off in New York, interrupted by years of international travel, World War II service, and more travel, he returned. As a tireless visual and verbal observer of the uniqueness and universality of places and patterns of behavior, he gradually realized that the South of his childhood, engrained in his soul, was equal in its authentic character to any of his exotic destinations. Carroll Cloar: In His Studio includes eighty black and white and forty color photographs and provides the most extensive published treatment of Cloar and his work since 1977.

ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS was founded in 1981. Its collections include nineteenth- and twentieth-century works on paper, ancient Egyptian art and artifacts, and African tra-ditional art and cultural objects. In addition to permanent installations of Egyptian and African galleries, the museum presents exhibits of twentieth-century and contemporary art and design in four galleries and conducts research on topics related to its collections and areas of interest.

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Photograph—Cloar Studio, courtesy of Special Collections, University of Memphis Libraries

AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE

INTO THE GREAT ART

AND THE WORKING

ENVIRONMENT OF A

RENOWNED PAINTER


AUTOBIOGRAPHY • MISSISSIPPI • CIVIL RIGHTS

DAVID L. JORDANFROM THE MISSISSIPPI COTTON FIELDS TO THE

STATE SENATE, A MEMOIR

David L. Jordan with Robert L. JenkinsForeword by Mike Espy

In David L. Jordan’s earliest memories, he is lying in the fields, the black earth beneath him and the sky and sun above, filtered through the leaves of the cotton plants. The youngest of five children in a family of sharecroppers, he was nursed and grew up in those fields, joining his family in their work as soon as he was old enough to carry a sack. David L. Jordan: From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate is the mem-oir of black Mississippi state senator and city councilman Jordan. His life in twentieth-century Mississippi spanned

some of the most difficult times for black Mississippians as they coped with the effects of crippling economic circumstances caused by tenant farming and second-class citizenship enforced through the most violent and repressive means. Jordan shares his experiences from early childhood growing up in Leflore County, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, through his life and work in government. He rose from humble beginnings to become professional educator and eventually one of the Deep South’s most recognizable social and political activists. In this revealing autobiography, Jordan describes his witness to the often brutal and humiliating mistreatment of blacks by white racists. He is one of the few persons still alive who attended the sensational trial of the two white men accused of the horrific lynching of Emmett Till in 1955. Jordan recounts the atmosphere and drama surrounding the case with telling effects, shining light on this brand of Mississippi injustice that will help readers understand why many people consider the case the real genesis of the modern civil rights movement. Though change was often slow and grudging, Jordan’s Mississippi has evolved and con-tinues to overcome. Indeed, Jordan’s story is notably a revelation of his role as a catalyst in shaping many of the gains blacks have achieved in Mississippi in the past fifty years. With a deep belief in the power of education, hard work, and determination, Jordan has worked tirelessly and courageously so that all his fellow citizens might enjoy the human and political rights he has long championed.

DAVID L. JORDAN, Greenwood, Mississippi, is a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 24th Congressional District since 1993. He is active in the Greenwood Voters’ League. ROBERT L. JENKINS, Starkville, Mississippi, is professor emeritus of history at Mississippi State University and is coeditor of The Malcolm X Ency-clopedia.

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WILLIE MORRIS BOOKS IN MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY • BUSINESS HISTORY

THE INSPIRING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A

COTTON FIELD WORKER WHO BECAME A

MAJOR FORCE FOR CHANGE IN MISSISSIPPI

MISSISSIPPI ENTREPRENEURS

Polly Dement

The seventy stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurs collectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises. Most tell “how they did it” uniquely and in their own words, bringing to life their entrepreneurial spirits. Family members and former colleagues pick up the storyline for legend-ary entrepreneurs who have passed on, recalling vividly the characteristics that set them apart from the competition. Usually a passion for creation inspired these go-getters—whether casting red-hot liquid steel into industrial products (Fred Wile, Meridian); constructing buildings (Roy Anderson III, Gulf-port; Bill Yates Jr., Philadelphia; and William Yates III, Biloxi); making agricultural products grow ( Janice and Allen Eubanks, Lucedale; and Mike Sanders, Cleveland); delivering and installing furniture ( Johnnie Terry, Jackson); using tech-nology to improve systems ( John Palmer and Joel Bomgar, and Toni and Bill Cooley, Jackson; and Billy and Linda Howard, Laurel); expanding food operations (Dr. S. L. Sethi, Jackson; and Don Newcomb, Oxford); or sharing the sheer love of music (Hartley Peavey, Meridian), food (Robert St. John, Hattiesburg), art (Erin Hayne and Nuno Gonçalves Ferreira, Jackson), or books ( John Evans, Jackson; and Richard Howorth, Oxford). Social and cultural entrepreneurs made their marks as well, including those focused on social justice (Martha Bergmark, Jackson); access to health care (Aaron Shirley, Jackson); and public education ( Jack Reed, Tupelo). Few if any books have focused exclusively on this aspect of the state’s history. Altogether the stories, accompanied by seventy black and white photographs, illustrate common traits, including plentiful vision, fierce drive, will-ingness to take risks and change for a better way, the ability to innovate, solve problems, and turn luck (both good and bad) to advantage. Most of these entrepreneurs generously share the rewards of their hard work and ingenuity with their com-munities.


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SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS INNOVATORS

FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT A HANDBOOK FOR MISSISSIPPI LANDOWNERS

Adam T. Rohnke and James L. Cummins

Featuring over five hundred illustrations and forty tables, this book is a collection of in-depth discussions by a tremendous range of experts on topics related to wildlife and fisheries management in Mississippi. Beginning with foundational chapters on natural resource history and

conservation planning, the authors discuss the delicate balance between profit and land stewardship. A series of chapters about the various habitat types and the associated fish and wildlife populations that dominate them follow. Several chapters expand on the natural history and specific management techniques of popular species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, and other species. Experts discuss such special management topics as supplemental, wildlife-food planting, farm pond management, backyard habitat, nuisance animal control, and invasive plant species control. Leading professionals who work every day in Mississippi with landowners on wildlife and fisheries management created this indispensible book. The up-to-date and applicable management techniques discussed here can be employed by private landowners throughout the state. For those who do not own rural lands but have an interest in the wildlife and natu-ral resources, this book also has much to offer. Residents of urban communities interested in creating a wildlife-friendly yard will delight in the backyard habitat chapter specifically written for them. Whether responsible for one-fourth of an acre or two thousand, landown-ers will find this handbook to be an incalculable aid on their journey to good stewardship of their Mississippi lands.

ADAM T. ROHNKE, Raymond, Mississippi, is a Certified Wildlife Biologist® with Mis-sissippi State University Extension Service and works with the general public on wildlife management issues, including enterprise development, wildlife damage, and conservation education. JAMES L. CUMMINS, Stoneville, Mississippi, is a Certified Wildlife Biologist®

and a Certified Fisheries Professional. He is executive director of Wildlife Mississippi, a statewide conservation organization working with private landowners and community leaders on common sense natural resource conservation.

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CONSERVATION • WILDLIFE • SOUTHERN STATES

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AND MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT OF

RESOURCES

POLLY DEMENT, Santa Fe, New Mexico, grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi, graduating from Mill-saps College. For the Senate Watergate Committee, she wrote profiles of the witnesses who testified, and later worked for the National Commission on Children and Hager Sharp, Inc., a communica-tions firm in Washington, D.C. MAY, 240 PAGES (APPROX.),

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THE STORY OF HUEY LONG’S

SON, THE POWERFUL UNITED

STATES SENATOR

RUSSELL LONG A LIFE IN POLITICS

Michael S. Martin

Russell Long (1918-2003) occupies a unique niche in twentieth-century United States history. Born into Louisiana’s most influential political family, and son of perhaps the most famous Louisianan of all time, Long extended the political power generated by other members of his family and attained heights of power

unknown to his predecessors, including his father Huey. The Long family and its followers pervaded Louisiana politics from the late 1920s through the 1980s. Being a Long—especially a son of Huey Long—preordained Russell for a political life. His father’s assas-sination set the wheels in motion for his eventual political career. In 1948, Russell followed his father and his mother to a seat in the United States Senate. In due course, he rose to the politically eminent positions of majority whip and chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Russell Long: A Life in Politics examines Long’s public life and places it within the context of twentieth-century Louisiana, southern, and national politics. In Louisiana, Long’s politics arose out of the Long-ite/Anti-Longite period of history. Yet he transcended many of those two groups’ factional squabbles. In the national realm, Long’s politics exhibited a working philosophy that straddled the boundaries between New Deal liberalism and southern conservatism. By the time of his retirement in early 1987, he had witnessed the demise of one political paradigm—the New Deal liberal consensus—and the creation of one dominated by a new style of conservatism.

MICHAEL S. MARTIN, Lafayette, Louisiana, is the Cheryl Courrégé Burguières/Board of Regents Professor of History and the director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also managing editor for Louisiana History. His articles have appeared in the Historian and Louisiana History, among others.

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BIOGRAPHY • POLITICS • LOUISIANA

MAYOR VICTOR H. SCHIRO NEW ORLEANS IN TRANSITION, 1961–1970

Edward F. Haas

During the turbulent 1960s, the city of New Orleans experienced unprece-dented economic growth, racial tensions and desegregation, political realignment, and natural disaster. Presiding over this period of sweeping change was Mayor Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992), an unas-suming, moderate Democrat who sought

the best for his city and adhered strictly to the rule of law in a region where laissez faire was standard practice and hardened defiance was a social norm. Schiro sought fairness for all and navigated a gauntlet of conflicting pressures. African Americans sought their civil rights, and whites resisted the new racial environment. Despite vigorous opposi-tion and an unfriendly press, Schiro won election twice. Under his direction, the city experienced numerous municipal reforms, the inclusion of African Americans in executive positions, and the broad extension of city services. The mayor, a businessman, recruited new corporations for his city, heralded the development of New Orleans East, and brought major professional sports to the Crescent City. He also initiated the plans for the construction of the Superdome. At the height of this activity, Hurricane Betsy devastated New Orle-ans. In response, Schiro coordinated with the federal government to initiate rescue and recovery at a rapid pace. In the aftermath, he lobbied Congress for relief funds that set the precedent for National Federal flood insurance.

EDWARD F. HAAS, Centerville, Ohio, is professor of history at Wright State University and the author of numerous books on Louisiana and New Orleans, including Delesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946–1961 and Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era. He received in 1999 the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Service Award from the Louisiana Historical Association and is a past president and fellow of the organization.

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BIOGRAPHY • POLITICS • LOUISIANA

A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LAST

MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS

TO GET THINGS DONE


A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND

INCOMPARABLE COLLECTION

DOCUMENTING THE BRANDS

AND MARKS OF THE PIONEERS

OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

LIVESTOCK BRANDSAND MARKS AN UNEXPECTED BAYOU COUNTRY HISTORY

1822–1946 PIONEER FAMILIES

TERREBONNE PARISH, LOUISIANA

Christopher Everette Cenac Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., with Claire Domangue JollerForeword by Clifton Theriot, C.A.

Researching the original brand regis-tration of his great-grandfather Pierre Cenac for his book Eyes of an Eagle, Dr.

Christopher Everette Cenac Sr. discovered a serendipitous trove of local history in the form of long-forgotten volumes in the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse in Houma, Louisiana. The three ledger books that emerged through the efforts of the local Clerk of Court became, in themselves, a series of capsulized glimpses into the citizenry of the area’s early agrarian foundations. In extraordinary condition, these ledgers held an unprecedented set of the original livestock brands and marks of bustling bayou cattle country. Each registration entry furnished a record of the progression of settlement of the parish. The registration of a brand often served as the family’s calling card upon making Terrebonne Parish their home. Live-stock Brands and Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History is designed not only to share the actual registration treasures of all 1140 brands in the brand books themselves, but also to chronicle a short history of laws governing animal identification, to document advances in forms of ownership identification, and to familiarize the reader with both ancient and more recent livestock breeds that received brands and other marks recorded in those three ledger books. Three hundred black-and-white and color illustrations illuminate this fascinating history. CHRISTOPHER EVERETTE CENAC SR., M.D., F.A.C.S., Houma, Louisiana, is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and served as Terrebonne Parish coroner. He and his wife, Cindy, reside at Winter Quarters on Bayou Black. CLAIRE DOMANGUE JOLLER, Houma, Louisiana, has received awards from the National Catholic Press Association and the Louisiana Press Association for her newspaper and magazine columns.

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LOUISIANA • HISTORY • AGRICULTURE

THE HOUSE THAT SUGARCANE BUILTTHE LOUISIANA BURGUIÈRES

Donna McGee Onebane

The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present.

When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nine-teenth-century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their family-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguières Company, as it plays a pivotal role in the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba. The French Burguières were visionaries who knew the value of land and its bountiful resources. The fertile soil along the bayous and wet-lands of south Louisiana bestowed on them an abundance of sugarcane above its surface, and salt, oil, and gas beneath. Ever in pursuit of land, the Burguières expanded their holdings to include the vast swamps of the Florida Everglades; then, in 2004, they turned their sights to cattle ranches on the great frontier of west Texas. Finally, integral to the story are the complex dynamics and tensions inherent in this family-owned company, revealing both failures and victories in its history of more than 135 years. The J. M. Burguières Company’s survival has depended upon each generation safeguarding and nourishing a legacy for the next.

DONNA McGEE ONEBANE, Lafayette, Louisiana, is a folklorist and a member of the English department faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She was director for the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Project in Louisiana and Louisiana Voices. Her contributions have appeared in Louisiana English Journal, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, and The Mark Twain Encyclopedia.

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3 MAPS, 2 TABLES, APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


LOUISIANA • HISTORY • FOLKLORE

THE MULTIGENERATIONAL

HISTORY OF ONE OF

LOUISIANA’S OLDEST

DYNASTIES AND ITS EMPIRE

OF SUGAR AND LAND

COUNT THEM ONE BY ONE BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS FIGHTING

FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE

Gordon A. Martin, Jr.

In 1961, Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when the United States Jus-

tice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While 30 percent of the county’s residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a southern registrar for contempt of court. The case served as a model for other challenges to voter dis-crimination in the South and was an important influence in shaping the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Count Them One by One is a comprehensive account of the ground-breaking case written by one of the Justice Department’s trial attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a newly minted lawyer, traveled to Hatties-burg from Washington to help shape the federal case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the government’s sixteen courageous black witnesses who had been refused registration, found white witnesses, and served as one of the lawyers during the trial. Decades later, Martin returned to Mississippi to find these brave men and women he had never forgotten. He interviewed the still-living witnesseses, their children, and friends. Martin intertwines these cur-rent reflections with vivid commentary about the case itself. The result is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the South.

GORDON A. MARTIN, JR., Boston, Massachusetts, is a retired trial judge and an adjunct professor at New England School of Law. His work has been published in the Boston Globe, Commonweal, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, various law reviews, and other periodicals.

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MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER SERIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN

STUDIES


CIVIL RIGHTS • MISSISSIPPI

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED THE JACKSON WOOLWORTH’S SIT-IN

AND THE MOVEMENT IT INSPIRED

M. J. O’BrienForeword by Julian Bond

Once in a great while, a certain pho-tograph captures the essence of an era: Three people—one black and two white—demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter while a horde of ciga-rette-smoking hotshots pour catsup, sugar, and other condiments on the pro-

testers’ heads and down their backs. This iconic image strikes a chord for all who lived through those turbulent times of a changing America. The photograph, which plays a central role in the book’s perspectives from frontline participants, caught a moment when the raw virulence of racism crashed against the defiance of visionaries. It now shows up regularly in books, magazines, videos, and museums that endeavor to explain America’s largely nonviolent civil rights battles of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Yet for all of the photograph’s prominence, the people in it and the events they inspired have only been sketched in civil rights histories. It is not well known, for instance, that it was this event that sparked to life the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. Sadly, this same sit-in and the protest events it inspired led to the assassination of Medgar Evers, who was leading the charge in Jackson for the NAACP. We Shall Not Be Moved puts the Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in into historical context. Part multifaceted biography, part well-researched history, this gripping narrative explores the hearts and minds of those participating in this harrowing sit-in experience. It was a demonstra-tion without precedent in Mississippi—one that set the stage for much that would follow in the changing dynamics of the state’s racial politics, particularly in its capital city.

M. J. O’BRIEN, Vienna, Virginia, is a writer and researcher who served for twenty-five years as the chief communications and public relations officer for a national not-for-profit cooperative.

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CIVIL RIGHTS • MISSISSIPPI

AN UP-CLOSE STUDY OF A

PINNACLE MOMENT IN THE

STRUGGLE AND OF THOSE

WHO FOUGHT FOR CHANGE

THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF

A COMMUNITY AND A LAWYER

UNITED TO BATTLE ONE OF

THE MOST RECALCITRANT

BASTIONS OF RESISTANCE

TO CIVIL RIGHTS

NOW IN PAPERBACK

NOW IN PAPERBACK


THE MIND OF THE SOUTHFIFTY YEARS LATER

Edited by Charles W. Eagles

This probing collection of essays assesses the wide influence of W. J. Cash and the profound effect of his classic dissection of southern history. Perhaps more than any other histo-rian, W. J. Cash revolutionized the inter-

pretation of southern identity. In 1941, when he published The Mind of the South, he exploded the correlated myths of the Cavalier South and the New South and gave historiography a new gauge for examining Dixie. In the half century since its publication, Cash’s book has lain in the path of every historian of the South. Not all, however, have expressed unified opinions about him and his influence, though few can deny how in the past fifty years his indelible and authoritative work has shaped the writing of southern history. In The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later eleven scholars examine this classic study and assess its enduring importance. Bruce Clayton begins by discussing the biography of Cash and tracing his sources. In the subsequent five essays Cash is praised, evaluated, criticized, defended, classified, and acknowledged to be the lion in the crossroads of south-ern historiography.

CHARLES W. EAGLES is a professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

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SCHOLARLY DEBATE

ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST

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EVER WRITTEN ON THE

AMERICAN SOUTH

Essays by Edward L. Ayers Orville Vernon BurtonBruce ClaytonDon H. DoyleLacy K. Ford Jr.Anne Goodwyn JonesMichael O’Brien John Shelton ReedLinda ReedJames L. RoarkBertram Wyatt-Brown

NOW IN PAPERBACK

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JAMES Z. GEORGEMISSISSIPPI’S GREAT COMMONER

Timothy B. Smith

“When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Com-moner’ of public life in his State,” wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar

Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” While George’s prominence has decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (1826–1897) was “Mis-sissippi’s most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century.” Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer and planter, Civil War officer, Reconstruction leader, state Supreme Court chief justice, and Mississippi’s longest serving United States senator in his day deserves a full biography. And, George’s importance was greater than just on the state level as other Southerners copied his tactics to secure white supremacy in their own states. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner seeks to rectify the lack of attention to George’s life. In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources never before or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of George’s letters held by his descendents and never used by historians. Such wonderful sources allow a glimpse not only into his times, but perhaps more importantly an exploration of the man himself, his traits, personality, and ideas. The result is a picture of an extremely common-place individual on the surface but an exceptionally complicated man underneath. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner will bring this important Mississippi leader of the nineteenth century back into the minds of twenty-first-century Mississippians.

TIMOTHY B. SMITH, Adamsville, Tennessee, is a lecturer of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of several books, including Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, published by University Press of Mississippi; The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield; and Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg.

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A BIOGRAPHY OF THE

DEMOCRATIC LEADER ONCE

CONSIDERED THE MOST

IMPORTANT MAN IN STATE

POLITICS

LONESOME MELODIES THE LIVES AND MUSIC OF

THE STANLEY BROTHERS

David W. Johnson

Carter and Ralph Stanley—the Stanley Brothers—are comparable to Bill Mon-roe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of

bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers, author David W. Johnson documents that Carter (1925–1966) and Ralph (b 1927) were equally important contributors to the tradition of old-time country music. Together from 1946 to 1966, the Stanley Brothers began their careers performing in the schoolhouses of southwestern Virginia and expanded their popularity to the concert halls of Europe. In order to re-create this post–World War II journey through the changing landscape of American music, the author interviewed Ralph Stanley, the family of Carter Stanley, former members of the Clinch Mountain Boys, and dozens of musicians and friends who knew the Stanley Brothers as musicians and men. The late Mike Seeger allowed Johnson to use his invaluable 1966 interviews with the brothers. Nota-ble old-time country and bluegrass musicians such as George Shuffler, Lester Woodie, Larry Sparks, and the late Wade Mainer shared their recollections of Carter and Ralph. Lonesome Melodies begins and ends in the mountains of southwest-ern Virginia. Carter and Ralph were born there and had an early pub-licity photograph taken at the Cumberland Gap. In December 1966, pallbearers walked up Smith Ridge to bring Carter to his final resting place. In the intervening years, the brothers performed thousands of in-person and radio shows, recorded hundreds of songs and tunes for half a dozen record labels, and tried to keep pace with changing times while remaining true to the spirit of old-time country music. As a result of their accomplishments, they have become a standard of musical authenticity.

DAVID W. JOHNSON, Stratham, New Hampshire, has written about popular and traditional music for fifty years. His article on the Carter Family was included in Best Music Writing 2004.

MARCH, 340 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES, 16 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS,

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AMERICAN MADE MUSIC SERIES


MUSIC • COUNTRY MUSIC • BIOGRAPHY

CREATING JAZZCOUNTERPOINTNEW ORLEANS, BARBERSHOP HARMONY,

AND THE BLUES

Vic Hobson

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the “First Man of Jazz.” Much of the information that the book relied on came

from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson’s credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson’s recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it carried a new tonality—the tonality of the blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans.

VIC HOBSON, Essex, England, was awarded a Kluge Scholarship to the Library of Congress in 2007 and a Woest Fellowship to the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2009. A trustee for the National Jazz Archive, he is active in promoting jazz scholarship and research, and his own work has appeared in American Music, Jazz Perspectives, and the Jazz Archivist.

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MUSIC • JAZZ • AMERICAN HISTORY

A FULL STUDY OF BUDDY

BOLDEN AND BUNK JOHNSON

CONFIRMING THEIR ROLES

IN THE REAL BLUES ROOTS

OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF

TWO INTEGRAL BLUEGRASS

INNOVATORS AND

TOUCHSTONES OF OLD-TIME

COUNTRY MUSIC’S

AUTHENTICITY

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THE JAZZ IMAGESEEING MUSIC THROUGH HERMAN

LEONARD’S PHOTOGRAPHY

K. Heather Pinson

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 cre-ated. 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. 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 profes-sor of communication and media arts at Robert Morris University. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of African American Music, the Ency-clopedia of the Blues, and Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture.

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MUSIC • JAZZ • MEDIA STUDIES

ALAN LOMAX, ASSISTANT IN CHARGETHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

LETTERS, 1935–1945

Edited by Ronald D. Cohen

Alan Lomax (1915–2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge,

starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. A reading and examination of his letters from 1935 to 1945 reveal someone who led an extremely complex, fas-cinating, and creative life, mostly as a public employee. While Lomax is noted for his field recordings, these collected letters, many signed “Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge,” are a trove of informa-tion until now available only at the Library of Congress. They make it clear that Lomax was very interested in the commercial hillbilly, race, and even popular recordings of the 1920s and after. These letters serve as a way of understanding Lomax’s public and private life during some of his most productive and significant years. Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. Here he speaks for himself through his voluminous correspondence.

An awarding-winning and Grammy-nominated producer, RONALD D. COHEN, Gary, Indiana, is the author of several books, including Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States; Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage; A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States: Feasts of Musical Celebration; and Alan Lomax: Selected Writings 1934-1997.

MARCH, 432 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES, 12 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS, INDEX



MUSIC • FOLKLORE

COLLECTED CORRESPON-

DENCE FROM ARGUABLY

THE MOST IMPORTANT

FOLKLORIST OF THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY

HOW PHOTOGRAPHER

HERMAN LEONARD AND

OTHERS CREATED THE

ICON OF THE DUSKY,

SOPHISTICATED, EDGY

JAZZ MUSICIAN

NOW IN PAPERBACK

NOW IN PAPERBACK


COMICS STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE

WIDE AWAKE IN SLUMBERLANDFANTASY, MASS CULTURE, AND MODERNISM IN THE ART OF

WINSOR McCAY

Katherine Roeder

Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869–1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled long-ing. This book explores McCay’s interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that

dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America. McCay’s role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window dis-plays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York City’s burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCay’s work to relevant children’s literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artist’s sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCay’s work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCay’s drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.

KATHERINE ROEDER, Fairfax, Virginia, teaches courses at George Mason University. She is a contributor to The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking (University Press of Mississippi) and A New Literary History of America. She is also a contributor to the Comics Journal and American Art.

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GREAT COMICS ARTISTS SERIES

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

LITTLE REDREADINGSHISTORICAL MATERIALIST

PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S

LITERATURE

Edited by Angela E. Hubler

A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children’s literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previ-ously analyzed class in children’s literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and exemplifying historical materialist approaches to children’s literature. The introduction of Little Red Readings lucidly discusses characteristics of his-torical materialism, the methodological approach to the study of literature and culture first outlined by Karl Marx, defining key concepts and analyzing factors that have marginalized this tradition, par-ticularly in the United States. The thirteen essays here analyze a wide range of texts—from children’s bibles to Mary Poppins to The Hunger Games—using concepts in historical materialism from class struggle to the commodity. Essayists apply the work of Marxist theorists such as Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson to children’s literature and film. Others examine the work of leftist writers in India, Germany, England, and the United States. The authors argue that historical materialist methodology is critical to the study of children’s literature, as children often suffer most from inequality. Some of the critics in this collection reveal the ways that literature for children often functions to naturalize capitalist economic and social relations. Other critics champion literature that reveals to readers the construction of social reality and point to texts that enable an under-standing of the role ordinary people might play in creating a more just future. The collection adds substantially to our understanding of the political and class character of children’s literature world-wide, and contributes to the development of a radical history of children’s literature.

THE FIRST STUDY TO PLACE THIS GENIUS

OF MODERN COMICS CREATION IN HIS

HISTORICAL CONTEXT


A COMPELLING CASE FOR THE

NEED TO ANALYZE CHILDREN’S

LITERATURE FROM A MARXIST

PERSPECTIVE

KOMIKS COMIC ART IN RUSSIA

José Alaniz

José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks—an art form much-maligned as “bourgeois” mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR—with an emphasis on the last twenty years. The book provides heretofore unavailable access to a rich artistry through unique archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and readings of several artists and works—many

unknown in the West. The study examines the dizzying experimental comics work of the late Czarist and early revolutionary era, caricature from the satirical journal Krokodil, and the postwar series Petia Ryzhik (the “Russian Tintin”). Detailed case studies include the Pere-stroika-era KOM studio, the first devoted to comics in the Soviet Union; post-Soviet komiks in contemporary art; autobiography and the work of Nikolai Maslov; and women’s komiks by such artists as Lena Uzhinova, Namida and Re-I. Author José Alaniz examines issues such as anti-Americanism, censorship, the rise of consumerism, globalization (e.g., in Russian manga), the impact of the internet, and the hard-won establishment of a comics subculture in Russia. Komiks have often borne the brunt of ideological change—thriving in summers of rela-tive freedom, freezing in hard winters of official disdain. This volume covers the art form’s origins in religious icon-making and book illustration, and later the immensely popular lubok or woodblock print. Alaniz reveals komiks’ vilification and marginalization under the Communists, the art form’s economic struggles, and its eventual internet “migration” in the post-Soviet era. This book shows, as many Russians expressed about their own experiences in the same era, that komiks never had a “normal life.”

JOSÉ ALANIZ is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work has appeared in the Interna-tional Journal of Comic Art, Comics Journal, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Ulbandus, and other periodicals.

APRIL, 280 PAGES, 24 COLOR AND 50 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


COMICS STUDIES • RUSSIA

THE FIRST STUDY TO TRACE THE EVOLUTION

OF RUSSIAN COMICS FROM SOVIET BÊTE

NOIRE TO POST-PERESTROIKA ART FORM

ANGELA E. HUBLER, Manhattan, Kansas, is an associate professor of women’s studies at Kansas State University. She has published essays in the Lion and the Unicorn, ChLA Quarterly, Critical Survey, Papers on Language and Literature, NWSA Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Against the Current.

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Essays by Ian AndrewsRoland BoerHeidi BrushAngela HublerCynthia Anne McLeodCarl F. Miller

Jana MikotaMervyn NicholsonJane RosenSharon SmuldersJustyna Deszcz-TryhubczakAnastasia UlanowiczNaomi Wood

WERNER HERZOG INTERVIEWS

Edited by Eric Ames

Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten

Dreams. When did Herzog decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where does he find his peculiar themes and charac-ters? What role does music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to the present. Critics and fans recognized Herzog’s importance as a young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews collected in this volume—some of them from Herzog’s production archive and previ-ously unpublished—appear in English for the very first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog’s work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time.

ERIC AMES, Seattle, Washington, is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Wash-ington. He is the author of Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog and Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments.

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TODD HAYNESINTERVIEWS

Edited by Julia Leyda

A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards and nominations and an expanding fan base for his provocative and engaging work. In all his films, Haynes works to portray the struggles of characters in conflict with the norms of society. Many of his movies focus on female characters, drawing inspiration from genres such as the woman’s film and the disease movie (Far from Heaven and Safe); others explore male characters who transgress sexual and other social conventions (Poison and Velvet Goldmine). The writer-director has drawn on figures such as Karen Car-penter, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Bob Dylan in his meditations on American and British music, celebrity, and the meaning of identity. His 2007 movie I’m Not There won a number of awards and was notable for Haynes’s decision to cast six different actors (one of whom was a woman) to portray Dylan. Gathering interviews from 1989 through 2012, this collection pres-ents a range of themes, films, and moments in the burgeoning career of Todd Haynes.

JULIA LEYDA, Tokyo, Japan, is associate professor of English at Sophia University. She has published in Television and New Media, Bright Lights Film Journal, La Furia Umana, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Cin-ema Journal, and other journals.

MAY, 240 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, INTRODUCTION, CHRONOLOGY,

FILMOGRAPHY, INDEX




“WHY DO WE DISMISS

MELODRAMAS AND

DOMESTIC DRAMA AS

SOMETHING SECOND-CLASS

IN PREFERENCE FOR

GENRES THAT ARE, FIRST,

MORE ESCAPIST AND MORE

ASSOCIATED WITH MALE

PROTAGONISTS?”

“THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS,

HOW MUCH STYLIZATION

DOES THE TRUTH NEED?”


DAVID FINCHERINTERVIEWS

Edited by Laurence F. Knapp

David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is, it’s hard to be self-effacing when you are the director responsible for Se7en, Fight Club, and The Social Network. Along with Quentin Tarantino, Fincher is the most accomplished of the Generation X

filmmakers to emerge in the early 1990s. This collection of interviews highlights Fincher’s unwavering commitment to his craft as he evolved from an entrepreneurial music video director (Fincher helped Madonna become the undisputed queen of MTV) into an enterprising feature filmmaker. Fincher landed his first Hollywood blockbuster at twenty-seven with Alien3, but that film, handicapped by cost overruns and corporate mismanagement, taught Fincher that he needed absolute control over his work. Once he had it, with Se7en, he achieved instant box-office success and critical acclaim, as well as a close partnership with Brad Pitt that led to the cult favorite Fight Club. Fincher became circumspect in the 2000s after Panic Room, shooting ads and biding his time until Zodiac, when he returned to his mantra that “entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.” Zodiac reinvigorated Fincher, inspiring a string of films—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—that enthralled audiences and garnered his films dozens of Oscar nominations.

LAURENCE F. KNAPP, Northbrook, Illinois, is professor of film studies at Oakton Community College. He is the author of Directed by Clint Eastwood and the editor of Brian De Palma: Interviews and Ridley Scott: Interviews (published by University Press of Mississippi) and has published in Jump Cut and other publications.

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RAVISHED ARMENIA AND THE STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN

Edited by Anthony SlideForeword by Atom Egoyan

“Ravished Armenia” and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901–1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people

at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Forced to march over fourteen hundred miles, she was sold into slavery. When she escaped to the United States, Mardiganian was then exploited by the very individuals whom she believed might help. Her story was published in book form and then used as the basis for a 1918 feature film, in which she herself starred. The film Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, is a graphic retelling of Aurora Mardiganian’s story, with the teenager in the central role, supported by Anna Q. Nilsson and Irving Cummings and directed by Oscar Apfel. Only twenty minutes of the film—the first to deal with the Armenian genocide—is known to survive, but it proves to be a stun-ning production, presenting its story in newsreel style. This revised edition of Anthony Slide’s “Ravished Armenia” and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian also contains an annotated reprint of Mar-diganian’s original narrative and, for the first time, the full screenplay. In his introduction, Slide recounts the making of the film and Mardiga-nian’s life in the United States, involving a cast of characters including Henry Morgenthau, Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, and film pioneer William Selig. The introduction also includes original comments by Aurora Mardiganian, whom Slide interviewed before her death. Acclaimed Armenian Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, who created a video art installation about Mardiganian in 2007, provides a foreword. ANTHONY SLIDE, Studio City, California, has published more than seventy books on popular entertainment, including Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers and Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins (both published by University Press of Mississippi).

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FILM STUDIES • WORLD HISTORY • MIDDLE EAST

A REMINDER OF THE PIVOTAL

ROLE ONE WOMAN PLAYED IN

OUR EARLY APPREHENSION

OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

“FILMS ARE NOT FINISHED.

THEY’RE ABANDONED.”


FILM • POPULAR CULTURE

MAKING AND REMAKING HORROR IN THE 1970s AND 2000sWHY DON’T THEY DO IT LIKE THEY USED TO?

David Roche

In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more “disturbing,” and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the

patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s—The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween—and their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as “disturbing” insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives? Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film’s aesthetics? Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strate-gies employed? In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this “disturbing” quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.

DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Université Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of L’Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch.

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FILM • POPULAR CULTURE • HISTORY

FRED ZINNEMANN AND THE CINEMA OF RESISTANCEJ. E. Smyth

Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cin-ema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from The Seventh Cross and The Search to High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and Julia. Smyth’s book is the first to draw upon Zinnemann’s extensive papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and brings Fred Zinnemann’s vision, voice, and film practice to life. In his engagement with the defining historical struggles of the twentieth century, Zinnemann fought his own battles with the Hollywood studio system, the critics, and a public bent on forgetting. Zinnemann’s films explore the role of women and communists in the antifascist resistance, the West’s support of Franco after the Spanish Civil War, and the darker side of America’s national her-itage. Smyth reconstructs a complex and conflicted portrait of Zinnemann’s cinema of resistance, examining his sketches, script annotations, editing and production notes, and personal letters. Illus-trated with seventy black-and-white images from Smyth’s collection, Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance discusses the director’s professional and personal relationships with Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, and Gary Cooper; the critical reaction to his revisionist Western, High Noon; his battles over the censorship of From Here to Eternity, The Nun’s Story, and Behold a Pale Horse; his unrealized history of the communist Revolution in China, Man’s Fate; and the controversial study of political assassination, The Day of the Jackal. In this intense, richly textured narrative, Smyth enters the mind of one of Hollywood’s master directors, redefining our knowledge of his artistic vision and practice.

AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE

MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL

AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIES


A COMPELLING HISTORY OF THE

DIRECTOR’S FILMS OF WAR AND

RESISTANCE

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY

John C. Tibbetts and James M. WelshForeword by Kevin BrownlowGreeting by Vera Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Cen-tury of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined.

Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks’s last silent film, The Iron Mask. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning dem-ocratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy-adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner’s experience and pretension and the Westerner’s promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from his-tory—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Art-ists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh’s text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star’s career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

JOHN C. TIBBETTS, Lenexa, Kansas, is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas and author of twenty books on a variety of subjects, the most recent being The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media. JAMES M. WELSH, Salisbury, Maryland, professor emeritus at Salisbury Univer-sity, cofounded Literature/Film Quarterly, which he edited for thirty-three years, and is the author of over twenty books, the most recent being The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia.

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A CRITICAL STUDY OF FAIRBANKS’S

ACTING CAREER AND HIS BRAND AS THE

ULTIMATE AMERICAN

J. E. SMYTH is associate professor of history and comparative American studies at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from “Cimarron” to “Citizen Kane” and Edna Ferber’s Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History and is the editor of Hollywood and the Amer-ican Historical Film.

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CONVERSATIONSWITH JAY PARINIEdited by Michael Lackey

Jay Parini (b. 1948), is best known for The Last Station, a novel about Leo Tolstoy’s last year has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also pub-

lished numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important interviews with the former Guggenheim fellow; a former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Parini’s work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. Parini’s life and writings often seem like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking and trading stories. He has openly written poems in conversation with writers he knew personally: Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has, in his own life, kept an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the years—Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A. N. Wilson, and countless others. These interviews offer a more comprehensive understanding of Parini’s work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understand-ing of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, all of which Parini has played an important role in shaping.

MICHAEL LACKEY, Morris, Minnesota, is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is the author of African Ameri-can Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith and The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich as well as numerous articles in journals.

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LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES


BIOGRAPHY • LITERATURE • AMERICAN STUDIES

CONVERSATIONS WITH KEN KESEYEdited by Scott F. Parker

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that

was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children’s books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked “The Sixties,” as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In the introduction to “An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey,” Paul Krassner writes, “For a man who says he doesn’t like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them.” What’s most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. Though after his two great tri-umphs writing played a lesser role in Kesey’s life, his interviews reveal a thoughtful and generous artist and citizen, who sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy—the death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Kesey’s central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

SCOTT F. PARKER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the author of Running After Prefontaine: A Memoir and Revisited: Notes on Bob Dylan and coeditor of Coffee—Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate. His work has appeared in Philosophy Now, Oregon Quarterly, Oregon Humanities, the Oregonian, the Star Tribune, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fiction Writers Review, and others.

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BIOGRAPHY • LITERATURE

“A WRITER MUST PRACTICE

LYING FOR A LONG TIME

BEFORE HE CAN TRUST

HIMSELF WITH ANYTHING SO

DELICATE AS THE TRUTH.”

“I DON’T KNOW WHAT ANY

HISTORIAN IMAGINES HE

OR SHE IS DOING EXCEPT

CREATING A WORK OF

FICTION.”


CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM GIBSON

Edited by Patrick A. Smith

“After reading Neuromancer for the first time,” literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, “I knew I had seen the future of [science fiction] (and maybe of literature

in general), and its name was William Gibson.” McCaffery was right. Gibson’s 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated SF novels of the last half century, and in a career spanning more than three decades, the American Canadian science fiction writer and reluctant futurist responsible for introducing “cyberspace” into the lexicon has pub-lished nine other novels. Editor Patrick A. Smith draws the twenty-three interviews in this collection from a variety of media and sources—print and online jour-nals and fanzines, academic journals, newspapers, blogs, and podcasts. Myriad topics include Gibson’s childhood in the American South and his early adulthood in Canada, with travel in Europe; his chafing against the traditional SF mold, the origins of “cyberspace,” and the unintended consequences (for both the author and society) of changing the way we think about technology; the writing process and the reader’s role in a new kind of fiction. Gibson (b. 1948) takes on branding and fashion, celebrity culture, social networking, the post–9/11 world, future uses of technology, and the isolation and alienation engendered by new ways of solving old problems. The conversations also provide overviews of his novels, short fiction, and nonfiction.

PATRICK A. SMITH, Havana, Florida, is professor of English at Bain-bridge State College in Bainbridge, Georgia. His previous books and edited collections include “The true bones of my life”: Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison; Tim O’Brien: A Critical Companion; and Conversations with Tim O’Brien (published by University Press of Mississippi), among others.

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BIOGRAPHY • LITERATURE • SCIENCE FICTION

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RECENTLY IN THE SERIES

“IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT AN

IMAGINED FUTURE. IT’S A WAY

OF TRYING TO COME TO TERMS

WITH THE AWE AND TERROR

INSPIRED IN ME BY THE

WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE”


FOLKLORE • CRAFTS • ETHNIC STUDIES FOLKLORE • EUROPEAN STUDIES

FOLKLORE THEORY IN POSTWAR GERMANY

Sadhana Naithani

Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses with specific and profound reference to the history of folklore studies in Germany. There in the early nineteenth century in the ideological context of romantic nationalism, the works of the Brothers Grimm pioneered the discipline. The sublimation of folklore studies with the nation’s political history reached a peak in the 1930s under the Nazi regime. This book takes a full look at what happened to folklore after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis. A special focus on Lutz Röhrich (1923–2006), whose work spans the decades from 1955 to 2006, makes this book a unique window into a monumental reclamation. In 1945 Röhrich returned from the warfront at the age of twenty-three, a wounded amputee. Resuming his education, he published his seminal Märchen und Wirklichkeit (Folktale and Reality) in 1956. Naithani argues that through this and a huge body of scholarship on folktale, folksong, prov-erbs, and riddles over the next decades, Röhrich transformed folklore scholarship by critically chal-lenging the legacies of Romanticism and Nazism in German folklore work. Sadhana Naithani’s book is the first full-length treatment of this extraordinary German scholar written in English.

EMBROIDERED STORIESINTERPRETING WOMEN’S DOMESTIC NEEDLEWORK

FROM THE ITALIAN DIASPORA

Edited by Edvige Giunta and Joseph Sciorra

For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations rep-resent Italian immigrant women’s needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants. EDVIGE GIUNTA, Teaneck, New Jersey, is professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture and The Milk of Almonds: Italian Amer-ican Women Writers on Food and Culture. JOSEPH SCIORRA, Brooklyn, New York, is the associate director for academic and cultural programs at the John D. Calandra Italian Amer-ican Institute, Queens College. He is editor of the journal Italian American Review and the book Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. AUGUST, 304 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, 30 B&W

PHOTOGRAPHS, INTRODUCTION, INDEX


EBOOK AVAILABLE

A THOROUGH EXPLORATION OF THE

INFLUENCE OF A TRADITIONAL SKILL

OF THE ITALIAN DIASPORA

Contributions by B. AmoreMary Jo BonaPhyllis CapelloRosette CapotortoJo Ann CavalloHwei-Fe’n CheahPaola CorsoPeter CovinoBarbara CrookerElisa D’ArrigoLouise DeSalvoBettina FaveroMarisa FrascaDonna R. Gabaccia Sandra M. Gilbert,Maria Mazziotti GillanLucia GrilloMaria GrilloKaren GuancioneJennifer GuglielmoJoanna Clapps HermanJoseph InguantiAnnie Rachele LanzillottoAnne Marie MacariGiuliana MammucariGiovanna Miceli JeffriesDenise Calvetti MichaelsLia OttavianoGianna PatriarcaJoan L. SaverinoMaria TerroneTiziana Rinaldi CastroAngela ValeriaIlaria Vann Lisa VenditelliPaul ZarzyskiChristine F. Zinni


A STUDY OF LUTZ RÖHRICH, THE

KEY FOLKLORIST WHO REDEEMED

AND CONTEXTUALIZED GERMAN

FOLKLORE AFTER HORRIFIC

MISUSES BY THE NAZIS

LEGEND-TRIPPING ONLINESUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE AND THE

SEARCH FOR ONG’S HAT

Michael Kinsella

On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents. Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish sci-ence and pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle

to revelation is a sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts by consensus powers wishing to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included here in complete form). In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pur-suits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends. Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confront-ing new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the Internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation.

MICHAEL KINSELLA, Columbus, Ohio, is pursuing a doctorate in religious studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He holds a master’s degree in folk studies from Western Kentucky University.

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FOLKLORE • MEDIA STUDIES

HOW THE INTERNET CRYSTALLIZES FRINGE

THEORIES INTO AMAZING REALITIES

SADHANA NAITHANI, New Delhi, India, is a professor at the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is the author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke and The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folk-loristics (University Press of Mississippi).

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6 X 9 INCHES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


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NOW IN PAPERBACK

OIL AND WATERMEDIA LESSONS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA

AND THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER

Andrea Miller, Shearon Roberts, and Victoria LaPoe

Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post- Katrina. However, the natural disaster that appalled the world in 2005 has been joined by another catastrophe, this

one manmade—the greatest environmental and maritime accident of all time, the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill. In less than five years, the Gulf Coast has experienced two colossal disasters, very different, yet very similar. And these two equally complex crises have resulted in a steep learning curve for all, but especially the journalists covering these enduring stories. In Oil and Water, the authors explore the media-fed experiences, the visuals and narratives associated with both disasters. Katrina jour-nalists have reluctantly had to transform into oil spill journalists. The authors look at this process of growth from the viewpoints not only of the journalists, but also of the public and of the scientific community. Through a detailed analysis of the journalists’ content, the authors tackle significant questions. This book assesses the quality of journalism and the effects that quality may have on the public. The authors argue that regardless of the type of journalism involved or the immensity of the events covered, successful reportage still depends on the fundamentals of journalism and the importance of following these tenets consistently in a crisis atmosphere, especially when confronted with enduring crises that are just years apart. ANDREA MILLER, Geismar, Louisiana, is associate dean for under-graduate studies and administration at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in many journals. SHEARON ROBERTS, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a native of Trinidad and a Latin American studies instructor and doctoral candidate at Tulane University. She contributed to Covering Disaster: Lessons from Coverage of Katrina and Rita. VICTORIA LaPOE, Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an assistant professor at Western Kentucky Uni-versity. She is the author of the book American-Indian Media: The Past, the Present, and the Promise of Digital. MAY, 192 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, 4 B&W IMAGES, APPENDICES,

INDEX



MEDIA STUDIES • NATURAL DISASTERS • LOUISIANA

TROUBLE IN GOSHENPLAIN FOLK, ROOSEVELT, JESUS, AND MARX

IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION SOUTH

Fred C. Smith

The Great Depression emboldened Amer-icans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to seemingly over-whelming economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those was rural southern poverty. In Trouble in Goshen, Fred C. Smith

focuses on three communities designed and implemented to meet that challenge. This book examines the economic and social theories—and their histories—that resulted in the creation and operation of the most aggressive and radical experiments in the United States. Trouble in Goshen chronicles three communitarian experiments, both the administrative details and the struggles and reactions of the clients. Smith covers the Tupelo Homesteads in Mississippi, the Dyess Colony in Arkansas, and the Delta Cooperative Farm, also in Mississippi. The Tupelo Homesteads were created under the aegis of the tiny Division of Subsistence Homesteads, a short-lived, “first New Deal” agency. Dyess Colony was the largest of the Resettlement Administration’s efforts to transform failed farmers into Jeffersonian yeoman farmers. The third community, the Delta Cooperative Farm, a product of the active cooperation between the Socialist Party of America and a cadre of liberal churchmen led by Reinhold Niebuhr, attempted to meld the pieties, passions, propaganda, and theories of Jesus and Marx. The equipment, facilities, and management styles of the projects reveal a clearly delineated class order among the poor. Trouble in Goshen demonstrates the class-conscious angst that enveloped three distinct levels of poverty and the struggles of plain folk to preserve their tenuous status and avoid overt peasantry. FRED C. SMITH, Tupelo, Mississippi, is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and adjunct at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee. He is a contributor to Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism, and Cultural Transfor-mation, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Mississippi History, Agricultural History, Florida Historical Quarterly, Southern Historian, and Mississippi History Now.

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HISTORY • SOUTHERN STATES • AGRICULUTURAL

THE UNTOLD STORY OF

THREE NEW DEAL COOPER-

ATIVE FARMS IN THE MOST

ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED

PLACES IN THE SOUTH

HOW THE MEDIA HANDLED

COVERAGE AND SHAPED

UNDERSTANDINGS OF TWO

MASSIVE AND ONGOING

CATASTROPHES


THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA’S PROMISEEQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT THE DAWN OF

CORPORATE CAPITAL

Claire Goldstene

In The Struggle for America’s Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about

its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding merit over inherited wealth. Others use opportunity as a mechanism to maintain economic inequal-ity. This tension, embedded with the idea of equal opportunity itself and continually reaffirmed by immigrant populations, animated social dissent among urban workers while simultaneously serving efforts by business elites to counter such dissent. Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. She considers the efforts of Booker T. Washington in a post–Civil War South to ground opportu-nity in landownership as an attempt to confront the intersection of race and class. She also explores the determination of the Knights of Labor to define opportunity in terms of controlling one’s own labor. She looks at the attempts by Samuel Gompers through the American Federation of Labor as well as by business elites through the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Civic Federation to shift the focus of opportunity to leisure and consumption. The Struggle for America’s Promise also includes such radical figures as Edward Bellamy and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself.

CLAIRE GOLDSTENE, Davis, California, has taught United States history at the University of Maryland, the University of North Flordia, and American University. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Thought and Action, Journal of Third-World Studies, and Southern Historian, among others.

MAY, 240 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


AMERICAN HISTORY • LABOR HISTORY

WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Edited by Amy Helene Kirschke

Women artists of the Harlem Renais-sance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more serious barrier. Including seventy-two black and white illustrations, this book chronicles the challenges of women artists, who are in some cases unknown to the general public, and places their achievements in the artistic and cultural context of early twentieth-century America. Contrib-

utors to this first book on the women artists of the Harlem Renaissance proclaim the legacy of Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Prophet, Lois Maillou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, and many other painters, sculptors, and printmakers. In a time of more rigid gender roles, women artists faced the added struggle of raising families and attempting to gain support and encour-agement from their often-reluctant spouses in order to pursue their art. They also confronted the challenge of convincing their fellow male artists that they, too, should be seen as important contributors to the artistic innovation of the era.

AMY HELENE KIRSCHKE, Wilmington, North Carolina, is a pro-fessor and chair at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the Department of Art and Art History. She is the author of Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory (winner of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research), and coeditor of Protest and Propa-ganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the “Crisis,” and American History.

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INTRODUCTION, INDEX


ART • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES • WOMEN’S STUDIES

ESSAYS THAT EXPLORE

HOW A SYSTEM OF PATRON-

AGE AND SEXISM MARGIN-

ALIZED SOME REMARKABLE

VISUAL ARTISTS

AN EXAMINATION OF THE

EXTRAORDINARY USES AND

ABUSES OF AN AMERICAN

IDEAL DURING A TIME OF

PERCEIVED PROSPERITY

Contributions from Renée AterKirsten Pai BuickSusan EarleLisa FarringtonMelanie HerzogAmy Helene KirschkeTheresa Leininger-MillerCary D. Wintz


CIVIL RIGHTS • RHETORIC • MEDIA STUDIES SOUTHERN HISTORY • CIVIL RIGHTS

THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTOMASSIVE RESISTANCE AND THE

FIGHT TO PRESERVE SEGREGATION

John Kyle Day

On March 13, 1956, ninety-nine members of the United States Congress promulgated the Declara-tion of Constitutional Principles, popularly known as the Southern Manifesto. Reprinted here, the Southern Manifesto formally stated opposition to the landmark United State Supreme Court deci-sion Brown v. Board of Education, and the emergent civil rights movement. This statement allowed the white South to prevent Brown’s immediate full-scale implementation and, for nearly two decades, set the slothful timetable and glacial pace of public school desegregation. The Southern Manifesto also provided the Southern Congressional Delega-tion with the means to stymie federal voting rights legislation, so that the dismantling of Jim Crow could be managed largely on white southern terms. In the wake of the Brown decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional, sem-inal events in the early stages of the civil rights movement—like the Emmett Till lynching, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the Autherine Lucy riots at the University of Alabama—brought the struggle for black freedom to national attention. Orchestrated by United States Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, the southern con-gressional delegation in general, and the United States Senate’s Southern Caucus in particular, fought vigorously and successfully to counter the initial successes of civil rights workers and maintain Jim Crow. The South’s defense of white supremacy culminated with this most notorious statement of opposition to desegregation. The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation narrates this single worst episode of racial demagoguery in modern Ameri-can political history and considers the statement’s impact upon both the struggle for black freedom and the larger racial dynamics of postwar America.

A VOICE THAT COULD STIR AN ARMYFANNIE LOU HAMER AND THE RHETORIC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM

MOVEMENT

Maegan Parker Brooks

A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer’s life by focusing on how she employed symbols—images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing—to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change.

Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and recent interviews with Hamer’s friends, family, and fellow activists, Maegan Parker Brooks moves chronologically through Hamer’s life. Brooks recounts Hamer’s early influences, her intersection with the black freedom movement, and her rise to prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brooks also considers Hamer’s lesser-known contributions to the fight against poverty and to feminist politics before analyzing how Hamer is remembered posthumously. The book concludes by emphasizing what remains rhetorical about Hamer’s biography, using the 2012 statue and museum dedication in Hamer’s hometown of Ruleville, Mis-sissippi, to examine the larger social, political, and historiographical implications of her legacy. The sustained consideration of Hamer’s wide-ranging use of symbols and the recon-struction of her legacy provided within the pages of A Voice That Could Stir an Army enrich understanding of this key historical figure. This book also demonstrates how rhetorical analysis complements historical reconstruction to explain the dynamics of how social movements actually operate.

MAEGAN PARKER BROOKS, Denver, Colorado, is a member of the National Fannie Lou Hamer Statue and Education Fund Committee. She is a lead researcher on a forthcoming documentary about Hamer, and she recently coedited, with Davis W. Houck, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (published by University Press of Mississippi).

JUNE, 336 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


RACE, RHETORIC, AND MEDIA SERIES

THE FIRST SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS OF

THE INSPIRATIONAL ACTIVIST’S

PROFOUND SPEECHES


HOW ONE DOCUMENT MARKED

THE NADIR OF AMERICAN RACIAL

POLITICS AND UNLEASHED A FIRE

THAT RAGED ACROSS THE

SEGREGATED SOUTH

BLACK BASEBALL, BLACK BUSINESSRACE ENTERPRISE AND THE FATE OF THE SEGREGATED DOLLAR

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan RosenWith introductory essays by Monte Irvin and Earl Smith

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations—Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these

sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball’s elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves trav-eled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball’s desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion.

ROBERTA J. NEWMAN, Brooklyn, New York, is master professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her work has appeared in the journals Cooperstown Symposium: 2009–2010 and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. JOEL NATHAN ROSEN, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem. He is coeditor of A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes; Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; and Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

MARCH, 240 PAGES (APPROX.), 6 X 9 INCHES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


SPORTS • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO

LEAGUES AND THE ECONOMIC DISRUPTIONS

OF DESEGREGATING A SPORT

JOHN KYLE DAY, Monticello, Arkansas, is asso-ciate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

JULY, 240 PAGES (APPROX.),

6 X 9 INCHES, 29 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS,

APPENDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


EBOOK AVAILABLE


AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE • LITERATURE POLITICS • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES •

RACE AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENONTHE VISION OF A MORE PERFECT

MULTIRACIAL UNION

Edited by G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams

The concept of a more perfect union remains a constant theme in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama. From his now historic race speech to his second victory speech delivered on November 7, 2012, that striving is evident. “Tonight, more than two hundred years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward,” stated the forty-fourth president of the United States upon securing a second term in office after a hard fought political contest. Obama borrows this rhetoric from the founding documents of the United States set forth in the U.S. Constitution and in Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” How naive or realistic is Obama’s vision of a more perfect American union that brings together people across racial, class, and political lines? How can this vision of a more inclusive America be realized in a society that remains racist at its core? These essays seek answers to these com-plicated questions by examining the 2008 and 2012 elections as well as the events of President Obama’s first term. Written by preeminent race scholars from multiple disciplines, the volume brings together competing perspectives on race, gender, and the historic significance of Obama’s election and reelection. The president heralded in his November, 2012, acceptance speech, “The idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like . . . . whether you’re black or white, Hispanic or Asian or Native American.” These essayists argue the truth of that statement and assess whether America has made any prog-ress toward that vision.

POST-SOUL SATIREBLACK IDENTITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS

Edited by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue

From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle’s Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisci-plinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expres-sion for a generation of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual/conceptual artists, satire enables collective questioning of many of the funda-mental presumptions about black identity in the wake of the civil rights movement. Whether taking place in popular and controversial television shows, in a provocative series of short internet films, in prize-winning novels and plays, in comic strips, or in conceptual hip-hop albums, this satiri-cal impulse has found a receptive audience both within and outside the black community. Such works have been variously called “post-black,” “post-soul,” and examples of a “New Black Aesthetic.” Whatever the label, this collection bears witness to a note-worthy shift regarding the ways in which African American satirists feel constrained by conventional obligations when treating issues of racial identity, historical memory, and material representation of blackness. Among the artists examined in this collection are Paul Beatty, Dave Chappelle, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Don-ald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino), Spike Lee, Aaron McGruder, Lynn Nottage, ZZ Packer, Suzan Lori-Parks, Mickalene Thomas, Touré, Kara Walker, and George C. Wolfe. The essays intentionally seek out interconnections among various forms of artistic expression. Contributors look at the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a broad-ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd, or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviors both within and outside the African American community.

DEREK C. MAUS, Potsdam, New York, is associate professor of English at SUNY Potsdam. He is the author of Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire and coeditor of Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction (published by University Press of Mississippi). JAMES J. DONAHUE, Potsdam, New York, is associate professor of English at SUNY Potsdam.

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A COLLECTION THAT EXPLORES THE

ROLE OF CURRENT SATIRE IN SHAPING

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BLACK

Essays by Bertram D. Ashe Thomas R. Britt Darryl Dickson-CarrJames J. DonahueMichael B. GillespieGillian JohnsLuvena KoppJennifer Larson Cameron Leader-Picone Brandon ManningMarvin McAllisterDanielle Fuentes MorganDerek Conrad MurrayKinohi NishikawaKeenan NorrisChristian SchmidtLinda Furgerson Selzer Terrence T. TuckerSam VásquezAimee Zygmonski


ESSAYS THAT EXPLORE HOW THE

FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT CONNECTS

TO THE PAST AND REIMAGINES

NATIONAL RACIAL AND POLITICAL

HORIZONS

BUILDING THE BELOVEDCOMMUNITYPHILADELPHIA’S INTERRACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

AND RACE RELATIONS, 1930–1970

Stanley Keith Arnold

Inspired by Quakerism, Progressivism, the Social Gospel movement, and the theories of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Franz Boas, and Ruth Bene-dict, a determined group of Philadelphia activists sought to transform race relations. This book concentrates on these organizations: Fellowship House, the Philadelphia Housing Association, and the Fellowship Commission. While they

initially focused on community-level relations, these activists became increasingly involved in building coalitions for the passage of civil rights legislation on the local, state, and national level. This historical account examines their efforts in three distinct, yet closely related areas, education, housing, and labor. Perhaps the most important aspect of this movement was its utilization of education as a weapon in the struggle against racism. Martin Luther King credited Fellowship House with introducing him to the passive resistance principle of satygraha through a Sunday afternoon forum. Philadelphia’s activists influenced the southern civil rights movement through ideas and tactics. Borrowing from Philadelphia, similar organizations would rise in cities from Kansas City to Knoxville. Their impact would have long-lasting implications; the methods they pioneered would help shape contemporary multicultural education programs. Building the Beloved Community places this innovative northern civil rights struggle into a broader historical context. Through interviews, photographs, and rarely utilized primary sources, the author critically evaluates the contributions and shortcomings of this innovative approach to race relations.

STANLEY KEITH ARNOLD, Rockford, Illinois, is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Sports History, Popular Music and Society, and the Historian.

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CIVIL RIGHTS • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES • HISTORY

HOW A NORTHERN CITY WITH DE FACTO

SEGREGATION OVERCAME PREJUDICE

AND BECAME A BEACON FOR THE REST

OF AMERICA

G. REGINALD DANIEL, Santa Barbara, Califor-nia, teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previ-ous publications include Machado de Assis: Multi-racial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist; More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order; and Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? HETTIE V. WILLIAMS, Long Branch, New Jersey, teaches in the Depart-ment of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. Her previous works include We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Black Power Revolt and the Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement, 1962–1968 and Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective.

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3 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS, FOREWORD, INTRODUCTION,

BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX


EBOOK AVAILABLE

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Contributions by Lisa Anderson-LevyHeidi ArdizzoneKaranja Keita CarrollGreg CarterFrank Rudy CooperMarhsa J. Tyson DarlingTessa DitontoDavid FrankAmy L. Heyse

David A. HollingerGeorge LipsitzMark McPhailTavia Nyong’oDavid RoedigerPaul SpickardJanet Mendoza StickmanPaul StreetEbony UtleyRonald Waters

TONI MORRISON MEMORY AND MEANING

Edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward and Justine TallyForeword by Carolyn C. Denard

Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known interna-tional scholars focusing on the author’s literary production and including her very latest works—the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are

among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential readers and teach-ers eager to understand the position of Desdemona and Home within the wider scope of Morrison’s career. Indeed, in Home, we find a reworking of many of the tropes and themes that run throughout Morrison’s fiction, prompting the editors to organize the essays as they relate to themes prevalent in Home. In many ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts that permeate the essays. They consistently reflect, in approach and interpretation, the revolutionary change in the study of American liter-ature represented by Morrison’s focus on the interior lives of enslaved Africans. This collection assumes black subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in order to reread and revise the horror of slavery and its conse-quences into our time. The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the broad range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation from Home, and framed by two poems: Rita Dove’s “The Buckeye” and Sonia Sanchez’s “Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo.”

ADRIENNE LANIER SEWARD, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a professor in the English Department at Colorado College. She serves on the executive board of the Toni Morrison Society. JUSTINE TALLY, Tenerife, Spain, is a professor of American literature at the University of La Laguna. She is author of Paradise Reconsidered: Toni Morrison’s (Hi)stories and Truths; The Story of Jazz: Toni Morrison’s Dialogic Imag-ination; and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: Origins. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison.

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WRITING IN THE KITCHENESSAYS ON SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND FOODWAYS

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Scarlett O’Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Varda-man Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner’s Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections between them have not been thoroughly explored until now. Southern food has become the subject of increasingly self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues of Oxford American and Southern Cultures, and a spate of new scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. Writing in the Kitchen explores the rela-tionship between food and literature and

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COOKING • LITERATURE • SOUTHERN STATES

READINGS OF FOOD IN

SOUTHERN LITERATURE

THAT REVEAL HUNGER AND

CREATIVITY AND THAT GO

BEYOND DEEP-FRIED CLICHÉS

AN ANTHOLOGY THAT

EXAMINES THE MANY

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE

NOBEL LAUREATE

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Other contributors explore the thickening mysteries of racial and sexual identity, particularly the enigmatic nature of his female and African American characters. Questions of insight, cognition, and judgment in Faulkner’s work are also at the center of essays that explore his storytelling techniques, plot development, and the inscrutability of language itself.

ANNETTE TREFZER, Water Valley, Mississippi, is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction.ANN J. ABADIE, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and the coeditor of numerous volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.

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FAULKNER AND FORMALISMRETURNS OF THE TEXT

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ANNETTE TREFZER, Water Valley, Mississippi, is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and the author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. ANN J. ABADIE, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of many volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.

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