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"The Same Uniform with White Men": Military Costume, African American War Experience, and Faulkner's Flags in the Dust Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Steven Trout
The US Army uniform issued to Caspey Strother, an African American World War I veteran in William Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, is freighted with contested political meaning. This article shows how the novel works to undermine the connection between military attire and citizenship (in the case of Black soldiers) and illuminates an ironic subtextual kinship between Caspey and his creator. In addition
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John Egerton's The Americanization of Dixie: A Fifty-Year Retrospective Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Christopher Strain
2024 marks the fifty-year anniversary of the publication of John Egerton's The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America (1974), a seminal work on regional and national identity. What did this book get right? What did it get wrong? Fifty years later, it still resonates. From states' rights to gun rights, from immigration to Black voter disfranchisement, from the resurgence of white supremacy
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Vorticism and Iron: Architectural Dialogue in Faulkner's "Mirrors of Chartres Street" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Amy Foley
William Faulkner shows the objective and subjective world in intimate dialogue throughout his fiction. His pattern of representing bodies in conversation with buildings through movement and perception is integral to his vision of embodied experience. This article demonstrates how Faulkner employs competing romantic and modernist architectures in service of a descriptive ontology and a new theory of
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Seeing "The Death of Mann" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-08 James Manigault-Bryant
This essay celebrates John Wilson's visual masterpiece, The Richard Wright Suite (2001), a series of six elegant etchings that reimagine Richard Wright's novella, "Down by the Riverside." Wilson's images, and the story that inspired them, remember lives lost to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Just as Wright's novella has been associated with accounts of the flood lyricized in blues music, Wilson's
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Tennessee's New South: Marquita Bradshaw and Her Call for Environmental Justice Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Phil Scholer
In 2020 Marquita Bradshaw became the first African American woman to win a state-wide race in Tennessee, soaring past her establishment opponents to clinch the Democratic primary for United States Senate. Throughout her campaign, Bradshaw evoked the increasingly popular progressive rallying cry "New South." Bradshaw's vision for a New South is characterized by her call for environmental justice. By
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"They got . . .": Ernest J. Gaines's Semiotic Reversal of William Faulkner Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Matthew Teutsch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “They got . . .”: Ernest J. Gaines’s Semiotic Reversal of William Faulkner Matthew Teutsch David Lionel Smith argues that rather than creating a hierar-chical reading of authors like William Faulkner and Ernest J. Gaines, which would ultimately place Gaines in a subordinate position since he follows Faulkner chronologically, “we need an
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"Southern Living from a Bygone Time": Gothic Spatialization of History in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Mattias Pirholt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Southern Living from a Bygone Time”: Gothic Spatialization of History in Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects Mattias Pirholt Unhomeliness in the Old South Contemporary crime fiction, one could argue, has returned to its roots, that is, the gothic from which the genre evolved in the nineteenth century and with which it has remained intimately
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Pheoby's Queer Quietness in Their Eyes Were Watching God Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Benjamin Bagocius
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Pheoby’s Queer Quietness in Their Eyes Were Watching God Benjamin Bagocius Pheoby Watson in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a figure who speaks up for, listens to, and invites queer discourse, or narrations of the sexual that nuance givens about desire by unsettling normative cisheterosexual storylines. In doing
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Watson's Faulkner: A Most Splendid Contribution Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Ahmed Honeini
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Watson’s Faulkner: A Most Splendid Contribution Ahmed Honeini Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, is widely considered one of the leading authorities on Faulkner working today. His latest offerings, William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity (2019) and its companion volume Fossil Fuel Faulkner:
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Vertis Hayes and the Johnson Hall Carver Mural Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Brittany Myburgh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Vertis Hayes and the Johnson Hall Carver Mural Brittany Myburgh The artist Vertis Hayes (1911–2000) is a foundational figure in the history of twentieth-century African American art (fig. 1). In 1929, Hayes moved from Atlanta to New York City to pursue his artistic career. Arriving in New York at the very beginning of the Great Depression
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"Interpreters of the Sea!": Historic Preservation and Women's Poetry of the Charleston Renaissance Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Sarah Grace Harrell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Interpreters of the Sea!":Historic Preservation and Women's Poetry of the Charleston Renaissance Sarah Grace Harrell In a typescript of her personal quandaries on poetry, written sometime in the 1920s, Josephine Pinckney asks, "Can pastoral poetry be truly written—that is, would a modern have a true urge to write about anything so remote
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Margaret Mitchell and the Nobel Prize, or Per Hallström and Gone with the Wind Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Paulus Tiozzo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Margaret Mitchell and the Nobel Prize, or Per Hallström and Gone with the Wind Paulus Tiozzo Introduction Margaret Mitchell told a Swedish journalist in 1942 that she never in her "wildest thoughts" could have imagined "that the Swedish people would be so interested in the American Civil War and its consequences," commenting on the popularity
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William Faulkner's Mink Snopes and Southern Livestock Control Practices Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Karl F. Zender
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: William Faulkner's Mink Snopes and Southern Livestock Control Practices Karl F. Zender This article will examine the life and actions of Mink Snopes, as they are depicted in The Hamlet, revisited briefly in The Town, then substantially expanded in The Mansion, the three novels of William Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. Its focus will fall on
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The Weirdness of Post-Traumatic Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Bailey Rhodes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Weirdness of Post-Traumatic Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Bailey Rhodes Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), a survivor of the 1918 influenza pandemic and modernist writer, reflects on her near-death experience in a 1963 interview: "It just simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything
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Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America ed. by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield (review) Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Pete Smith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America ed. by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield Pete Smith Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. 360pp
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The Traveling Word: Eudora Welty's Literary Correspondence with the Postal South Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Donnie McMahand, Kevin L. Murphy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Traveling Word: Eudora Welty’s Literary Correspondence with the Postal South Donnie McMahand and Kevin L. Murphy Curated and brought out in three separate volumes, first by Suzanne Marrs and most recently by Julia Eichelberger, Eudora Welty’s published correspondence confirms her fondness for witty observation, sympathy, and affection
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Mapping the Lost Home: Psalm 137 and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Rachel Ewing
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Mapping the Lost Home: Psalm 137 and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing Rachel Ewing Jesmyn Ward’s 2017 novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, tells the story of Jojo, a thirteen-year-old biracial boy in coastal Mississippi, and his family as they struggle to navigate issues of grief and addiction rooted in the generational trauma of racist oppression
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The Ethics of Unmeaning: Noise and the Non-inscribable Slave Voice Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Edward Piñuelas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Ethics of Unmeaning: Noise and the Non-inscribable Slave Voice Edward Piñuelas In the nexus of literature from within chattel slavery, music has provided scholars of various slave traditions a potent material for reading the influences of enslavement on everyday life in bondage, as well as the remnants of that life in contemporary
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Civilization, Outlawry, and a Declaration of Independence in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Terrell L. Tebbetts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Civilization, Outlawry, and a Declaration of Independence in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Terrell L. Tebbetts When Huck Finn lights out for the territory at the end of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, his flight resolves the tension the novel develops as it pits Civilization with its various defining narratives, on the one hand, against
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Heidegger's Idea of Dwelling: Narrative Style in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Colleen Shuching Wu
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Heidegger’s Idea of Dwelling: Narrative Style in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying Colleen Shuching Wu William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a novel that consists of several major characters’ monologues and narratives, each narrated in the first person. There is no grand narrator or authorial voice who acts as arbiter, telling the reader which
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Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs (review) Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 David A. Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs David A. Davis Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature, by Jolene Hubbs. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 191 + xi pages. $110 cloth, eBook. Poverty leaves an indelible mark in the form of a self-consciousness that never completely fades. Growing up poor white in
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"Soft White Cotton and Blood": Frederick Douglass, Mary Chesnut, and Fertility Tropes in the Reconstruction Diary of The Wind Done Gone Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Christina K. Adkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Soft White Cotton and Blood":Frederick Douglass, Mary Chesnut, and Fertility Tropes in the Reconstruction Diary of The Wind Done Gone Christina K. Adkins Alice Randall wrote her 2001 novel The Wind Done Gone (WDG) as an "antidote" to what she considered the "poison" of Gone with the Wind (Interview with Ken Paulson), Margaret Mitchell's
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"Taken for 'white'": Passing in Charles W. Chesnutt's Short Stories Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Izabela Hopkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Taken for 'white'":Passing in Charles W. Chesnutt's Short Stories Izabela Hopkins "Twice to-day, or oftener I have been taken for 'white,'" wrote the young Charles Waddell Chesnutt in his diary on 31 July 1875 (Journals 78). Chesnutt embodied the paradox of the invisible color line based on custom and tradition. In 1879, long before Plessy
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The World as Tale: Ontological Dynamism and Metaphysical Unity in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Rick Elmore, Jonathan Elmore
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The World as Tale:Ontological Dynamism and Metaphysical Unity in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing Rick Elmore and Jonathan Elmore There is broad agreement that The Crossing is one of Cormac McCarthy's most philosophical novels. Despite this consensus, scholars remain divided on how best to read the philosophy of McCarthy's book, seeing in
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A Death in the Reverend's House: The Three-part Allegory in William Faulkner's Light in August Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Brian K. Reed
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Death in the Reverend's House:The Three-part Allegory in William Faulkner's Light in August Brian K. Reed The exuberance of youth can become the sorrow of age. William Faulkner expressed this thought to undergraduate students at the University of Virginia when he said, there comes a time when you've got to live with [the cruelty one
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Jazz Poetry as a Message of African American Culture: An Interview with Lenard D. Moore Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 John Zheng
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Jazz Poetry as a Message of African American Culture:An Interview with Lenard D. Moore John Zheng Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lenard D. Moore is a prolific poet with seven poetry collections. Known internationally as a haiku poet, Moore shows his great interest in various poetic forms and expressions in The Geography of Jazz, reprinted
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Whitman's Sketches of New Orleans: A City, and an Artist, by Glimpses Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Bonnie Carr O'Neill
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Whitman's Sketches of New Orleans:A City, and an Artist, by Glimpses Bonnie Carr O'Neill The poet of "Song of Myself" identifies himself as "Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son." The assertion of an identity at once particular and general is audacious, but it also reflects a philosophy of belonging derived from unique circumstances
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Speaking Bodies, Kinesthetic Awareness, and Lacanian Performativity in Eudora Welty's "Shower of Gold" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Stephen M. Fuller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Speaking Bodies, Kinesthetic Awareness, and Lacanian Performativity in Eudora Welty's "Shower of Gold" Stephen M. Fuller The rich panorama of Eudora Welty's literary and photographic output reveals a lifelong interrogation of forms of consciousness that arise from the experience of embodied beings shaped by networks of cultural discourse
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A Marriage between Tricksters: Literary Heritage in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Yuki Miyazawa
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Marriage between Tricksters:Literary Heritage in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth" Yuki Miyazawa Charles W. Chesnutt expresses his outlook on creativity very clearly in the essay "Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South" (1901). He notes that his knowledge of conjuration, a folk belief prevalent among African Americans in
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The Southern Lady from Pedestal to Terra Firma: Isa Glenn's Southern Charm Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Veronica Makowsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Southern Lady from Pedestal to Terra Firma:Isa Glenn's Southern Charm Veronica Makowsky Isa Glenn (1874–1951) is yet another acclaimed woman writer who disappeared from the male-created and male-dominated literary canon after the Second World War. In her case this patronizing devaluation was exacerbated by the patriarchal and racial
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"Old," "New," and "Problem" Souths: Historical Change and Ideological Instability in Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Peter Templeton, Andrew Dix
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Old," "New," and "Problem" Souths:Historical Change and Ideological Instability in Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia Peter Templeton and Andrew Dix Introduction Thomas Nelson Page, like William Wirt and John Pendleton Kennedy before him, was part of a tradition of early southern authors as prominent for their roles in government or
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A Discipline of Submission: Taste and Tension in Allen Tate and Paul Ricoeur Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Robert Vaughan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Discipline of Submission:Taste and Tension in Allen Tate and Paul Ricoeur Robert Vaughan There is nothing uniquely postmodern about wrestling with language's limitations, whether it is the poet or the critic doing the wrestling. Jacques Derrida admitted that "Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ed. by Joy Harjo et al. (review) Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Lauren Adams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetryed. by Joy Harjo et al. Lauren Adams When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo et al.W. W. Norton, 2020. 496 pp. $19.95 paper; eBook
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Speaking Bodies, Kinesthetic Awareness, and Lacanian Performativity in Eudora Welty's "Shower of Gold" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Stephen M. Fuller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Speaking Bodies, Kinesthetic Awareness, and Lacanian Performativity in Eudora Welty's "Shower of Gold" Stephen M. Fuller The rich panorama of Eudora Welty's literary and photographic output reveals a lifelong interrogation of forms of consciousness that arise from the experience of embodied beings shaped by networks of cultural discourse
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A Marriage between Tricksters: Literary Heritage in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Yuki Miyazawa
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Marriage between Tricksters:Literary Heritage in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth" Yuki Miyazawa Charles W. Chesnutt expresses his outlook on creativity very clearly in the essay "Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South" (1901). He notes that his knowledge of conjuration, a folk belief prevalent among African Americans in
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The Southern Lady from Pedestal to Terra Firma: Isa Glenn's Southern Charm Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Veronica Makowsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Southern Lady from Pedestal to Terra Firma:Isa Glenn's Southern Charm Veronica Makowsky Isa Glenn (1874–1951) is yet another acclaimed woman writer who disappeared from the male-created and male-dominated literary canon after the Second World War. In her case this patronizing devaluation was exacerbated by the patriarchal and racial
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"Old," "New," and "Problem" Souths: Historical Change and Ideological Instability in Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Peter Templeton, Andrew Dix
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Old," "New," and "Problem" Souths:Historical Change and Ideological Instability in Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia Peter Templeton and Andrew Dix Introduction Thomas Nelson Page, like William Wirt and John Pendleton Kennedy before him, was part of a tradition of early southern authors as prominent for their roles in government or
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A Discipline of Submission: Taste and Tension in Allen Tate and Paul Ricoeur Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Robert Vaughan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Discipline of Submission:Taste and Tension in Allen Tate and Paul Ricoeur Robert Vaughan There is nothing uniquely postmodern about wrestling with language's limitations, whether it is the poet or the critic doing the wrestling. Jacques Derrida admitted that "Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ed. by Joy Harjo et al. (review) Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Lauren Adams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetryed. by Joy Harjo et al. Lauren Adams When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo et al.W. W. Norton, 2020. 496 pp. $19.95 paper; eBook
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Erratum Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum Hughes, Leonard. “The Great Gatsby’s Southern Exposure: Walker Percy’s Debt to F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Moviegoer.” Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4, 2020. The second full paragraph on page 482 should begin: In a letter published posthumously in 2012, Percy displays the lighthearted side of his personality as he recounts
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Wearing Down the Fence: Disrupting the Black–White Binary in Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love and Dust Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Maria Hebert-Leiter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Wearing Down the Fence: Disrupting the Black–White Binary in Ernest J. Gaines’s Of Love and Dust1 Maria Hebert-Leiter Frederick Douglass directly confronted the irony of the “color line” in the United States as early as 1845, when Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, was published. In chapter
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Elma Stuckey: The "Historian's Poet Laureate" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Matthew C. Hawk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elma Stuckey: The “Historian’s Poet Laureate” Matthew C. Hawk I The nameless first-person narrator of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man reflects on his first prolonged exposure to what he calls “Negro dialect” early in the novel. As he travels down south from Washington, he notes of black vernacular:
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(Re)writing Histories in the Crossing: Natasha Trethewey's Poetics of Loss Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Faune Albert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: (Re)writing Histories in the Crossing: Natasha Trethewey’s Poetics of Loss Faune Albert What was I saying? I had to cross the word out,start again, explain what I know best because of the way you left me: how suddenlya simple errand, a letter—everything—can go wrong. —Natasha Trethewey, “Letter” The Difference of a “Letter” Natasha Trethewey’s
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Entropy and Equilibrium in Jean Toomer's Cane Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Matt Phillips
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Entropy and Equilibrium in Jean Toomer’s Cane Matt Phillips Modernism is defined by entropic characteristics. Fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding are common themes in modernist literature. Alongside these themes, however, is a desire to rebuild, to somehow distill elements of past constructs into something that can
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Cold Mountain, Book to Film: Epic War Novel to Love Story Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Margaret D. Bauer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Cold Mountain, Book to Film: Epic War Novel to Love Story Margaret D. Bauer Talking about his 1997 novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier recalls an early book-signing event at which fewer than a dozen people were in attendance, counting the bookstore staff (Bauer, “Way” 142). It was not long, however, before he would find himself facing
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Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto (review) Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Thomas B. Whalen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto Thomas B. Whalen Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, by Jenna Grace Sciuto. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021
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Introduction: Rethinking Mass Incarceration through the US South Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Katie Owens-Murphy, Jeanine Weekes Schroer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: Rethinking Mass Incarceration through the US South Katie Owens-Murphy and Jeanine Weekes Schroer The numbers have been rehearsed many times: the United States has the third largest incarcerated population in the world and leads the world in the number of incarcerated people per 100,000 citizens. Nearly 20% of the world’s
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Inside and Out: Black Trans Women Incarcerated in the South Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Inside and Out: Black Trans Women Incarcerated in the South Rachel Marie-Crane Williams The intersectional identities of people who are incarcerated have deep repercussions for their quality of life in prison including their mental and physical health and safety. Variations in identity tied to race, gender, and/or sexuality have long been
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The American Virus: COVID-19 and Carceral Liberalism Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Jennie Lightweis-Goff
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The American Virus: COVID-19 and Carceral Liberalism Jennie Lightweis-Goff Prisons are ubiquitous. They’re everywhere and nowhere. —Thomas Reem Cotton, returning citizen Almost all the media coverage . . . has been aimed at the . . . groups now minimally at risk, as if the high-risk groups were not part of the audience. And in a sense
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For the 95 Bodies Found on the Imperial Sugar Plantation Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Jason McCall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: For the 95 Bodies Found on the Imperial Sugar Plantation1 Jason McCall In February 2018, construction workers discovered the remains of 95 black workers on the site of the former Imperial Sugar Plantation. The plantation was infamous for its brutality during both the slavery era and the convict leasing era. Some scholars claim that Lead
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Welcome to the Farm Squad: Notes from the Prison Plantation Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Anonymous
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Welcome to the Farm Squad: Notes from the Prison Plantation Anonymous I stood in line, stripped naked, asked to open my mouth, lift my testicles, and bend over and cough. We were placed on bunks in rows only feet apart, stacked next to as well as on top of each other. Counted, fed, and sometimes beaten before being shipped to the next
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A Different Kind of Labor: Writing in Prison Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Ryan M. Moser
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Different Kind of Labor: Writing in Prison Ryan M. Moser “It’s never too late to become who you might have been.” —quote on a prison library wall The Writers Guild We called ourselves the Writers Guild: three raconteurs brought together by a creative writing workshop and our mutual passion for words. There were others in the class, but
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"And Now She Sings It": Conjure as Abolitionist Alternative in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Joanna Davis-McElligatt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “And Now She Sings It”: Conjure as Abolitionist Alternative in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing Joanna Davis-McElligatt In this essay I contend that Jesmyn Ward’S 2017 novel Sing, Unburied, Sing constructs conjure and, more specifically, conjure healing as a decarceral strategy—or what Angela Y. Davis terms an “abolitionist alternative”
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Choose Your Own Homicide: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death in Alabama Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Project Hope to Abolish The Death Penalty, Katie Owens-Murphy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Choose Your Own Homicide: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death in Alabama Project Hope to Abolish The Death Penalty and Katie Owens-Murphy In his dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Callins v. Collins (1994), Justice Harry Blackmun famously wrote that he would “no longer tinker with the machinery of death.” He elaborated:
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Straw Dogs and the Transnational Remaking of Nations' Regions Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Martyn Bone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Straw Dogs and the Transnational Remaking of Nations' Regions Martyn Bone Some two decades since the genesis of the New Southern Studies (NSS), it is possible to discern two dominant strands, and two geographic scales, in much NSS scholarship. The first strand situated the US South at a national scale as a corrective to hoary models of
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Aziz Ansari: Star of the Postsouthern South Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Tison Pugh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Aziz Ansari:Star of the Postsouthern South Tison Pugh "There's no easy path to stand-up [comedy], but an Indian kid from South Carolina? That is some journey." —Chris Rock, commenting on Aziz Ansari's career (Yuan, "Red State" 80) Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Truman Capote, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres, Reese Witherspoon, Tyler Perry
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The Great Gatsby's Southern Exposure: Walker Percy's Debt to F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Moviegoer Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Leonard Hughes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Great Gatsby's Southern Exposure:Walker Percy's Debt to F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Moviegoer Leonard Hughes Tom and Daisy stared, with the peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies. —Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby I am attracted to movie stars but not for the usual reasons
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"The Child is Father of the Man": Evolving Fatherhood in Faulkner's Later Fiction Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Terrell L. Tebbetts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The Child is Father of the Man":Evolving Fatherhood in Faulkner's Later Fiction Terrell L. Tebbetts Patricides and near-patricides haunt Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels. Young Bayard accidently (?) kills Old Bayard in Flags in the Dust. Sarty Snopes may have precipitated his father's death in "Barn Burning." Joe Christmas may well have
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A Hidden Murder in Edgar Allan Poe's "'Thou Art the Man'" Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Yasuhiro Takeuchi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Hidden Murder in Edgar Allan Poe's "'Thou Art the Man'" Yasuhiro Takeuchi Despite its complicated narrative design, "'Thou Art the Man'" (1844) is generally known as a "comic detective story" (Thompson 6). Its "detective" attempts to convince people that another man is the culprit in a murder for which the "detective" himself is responsible
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Symbolic Language and Action in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Mississippi Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Liam Purdon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Symbolic Language and Action in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Liam Purdon One of the most intriguing features of Kate Chopin's The Awakening is the novel's blending of realism with "a symbolic sensibility," the symbolic representation of subjective experience as critique of social institutions, an idea Elizabeth Fox-Genovese first identified